The term "Guerilla tactics" wasn't coined until the early 1800s during the Peninsular War in Spain, when the spanish partisans were described as "fighting a small war" or in spanish guerilla... so what would the Sultan actually have said? Fabian tactics?

Don't raise your voice so high. Your "ii" makes my cat die, and breaks my window

Thanks for making great videos tho!;)

Vau! That's what I needed...

So the battle took place roughly 2000 km from Italy, but you take into consideration from all the sources available the writings of a an Italian scribe? Interesting....

Didn't you guys just copy Historiacivillis and abuse the algorithm to spread your soulless corporate clone?

@The Warrior محارب the attempted conversion of Vlad was mentioned in part one. Who cares about Vlad's brother memorizing the Quran? How is that even relevant or important? These videos were not about his life they were about the battles agaisnt the ottomans.

Also, they never mentioned that Vlad's Brother Radu memorized the Qur'an or became Muslim? Or that Vlad and Radu were educated by the Ottomans in Istanbul.

If you get the time at some point, after addressing other topics of interest you can also do a video on: Mihai Viteazul or Mircea cel Batran. As said, when and if you get the time :)

@Nur Ain In that period,all nations armies,killed enemy populations in there road. In fact,to descurage another population to colonise you land,you as a ruller must order to you commanders to do that. If you have a pact with you enemy,to not colonise you land or is war,and you enemy dont respect that pact,that mean,you must put fear in colonisers to not come back

@Nur Ain who?

@Nannun- Daniel what a strategy kill 24k innocent people?

I wonder if the members of Monty Python were aware of this legend? In _The Life of Brian_ an orthodox couple protests on realizing there's a Samaritan being crucified nearby, because under the terms of the occupation they're entitled to be crucified in a Jewish-only section. Others start protesting too. The centurion asks for everyone who wants to be crucified in a different section to raise their hands.

YES !! 👹🎃👽

Vlad be like: Ok.. You know what? Let's just agree to disagree

True, I used to be an ardent follower of Kings and Generals, however I think your work is less bias and just as well produced. Keep it up

LMAO, you refreshed to see the comment? Priceless :D

HistoryMarche Hey man just let me enjoy a great video : )

Thank you very much mate! Always nice to see positive feedback from fellow history KZonlinesrs. If I may, I'd highly recommend anyone to check out your content, in my book your channel is one of the best out there.

Vlad Rosca same haha. Partly

I finished highschool some time ago, and since it's summertime I doubt I'll find any teacher there. Will try to do so though.

Any chance you could put in a word at the school and have them show the video?

Thank you so much. It means a lot to have positive feedback from someone living in the area.

@Nur Ain when colonists are sent on your land, to deculturalize your nation only so decades later the guy that send those colonists claim the majority of population is turkish, they are not innocent anymore. It was a deculturalization tactic and a millitary strategy. Raiding turkish setlements in wallachia was justified in those times

Yes that huge ball only for 24k innocent people

Vlad was educated in Ottoman Palace. He tried to make similar night attack as Ottomans did in 1371. Serban Despot Ugljesa marched on Ottoman city Adrionopole with 70.000 soldier. While they made camp near Maritsa river Ottoman General Lala Sahin Pasha realised Serbians were too confident and security of canp was low because main army of Ottomans was in Asia. Lala Sahin Pasha attacked to camp of Serbians at night only with 800 light cavalary. He created big panic in Serbian camp because Serbians didnt realise they outnumbered Turkish attack as 800 to 70.000. Lala Sahşn Pasha directly attack to center of the camp and killed Serbian Nobbles. And Serbian King and his soldiers drowned while they tried to escape by passing other side of the river with panic. Vlad exactly tried same operation, he made night attack to kill Mehmet. But Ottoman Sultans protected by permanent army called Janniseries. And Janniserries elite and well organised units. They had good reaction and hold Vlad's advenced because unlike Serbians Janniseries knew they outnumbered Vlads army. Holding Vlad was makimg time to ley Ottoman sipahi cavalaries join the fight and finish Vlad. Vlad was smart when he lost the surprise advantage he knew he cant stand against Ottoman army and he managef to retrrat. But all success of Vlad is coming from his education in Ottoman army. Vlad's war againsr Mehmed wass more like a civil war of 2 Ottoman cımmanders.

@Marina Zagrai I didn't know that, very interesting. Thanks!

Abel...that was a tactic used by Alexander the Great - to cause chaos among the enemy. Imagine a force that outnumbered the attacked force causing havoc! The invaders were relaxing the night before an attack and the surprise they would get when battle plans didn't go according to the anticipated result.

Thank you ever so much for the positive feedback.

Not spot on, but fairly good.

Thank you sir, very nice to see positive feedback. We've had a lot of help from Calin Cretu who checked all of our pronunciations.

@HistoryMarche Even so, the relatively small Eastern European rulers like Vlad halted off the Ottomans and allowed Europe to be what it is today.

Thank you kindly for the positive feedback. Indeed, this is one of those battles that come close to drastically changing the course of history.

@HistoryMarche Michael the Brave had the same problem... And many before and after him. Some of the boyars of the land were a different chapter in themselves.

Yes. 15th century Moldova knew 2 reigns (Alexander the Good and Stephen the Great) which, combined, lasted for almost 80 years. Less exposed and arguably stronger, with higher stability and less entrenched feuds. Even after Stephen died the dynastic continuity remained mostly unchallenged and would have continued probably longer if it weren't for the breaking point in Romanian history which, imo, is the loss of Bugeac under Petru Rares. His "we shall again be what we were before and even more" motto proved to be rather ominous for centuries and a tremendously costly prophecy to bring into life.

Yes, to hammer home his authority with the boyars and ensure their loyalty he had to have remained in power for much longer. 6 years was too short a period to completely bring all nobility into the fold.

As they say: "history repeats itself" ...over and over and over.

@Havock what are you on about? give me any example of religious free will under chirsitains or that time period? maybe 1 or two max and usually for other chistian minorities but that about it. if you can't do religious free will then its not free will at all.

This is what happens when you don't have a Vlad Tepes.

@York's Folly well when you stated common goal of spreading the islam, makes it a bit weird. As Europe itself was in war with themselfs, how about if they had a common goal and didn't fight eachother. You making it sound like as if Europe wasn't in war with eachother. Vlad maybe if he wasn't betrayed or had gained more support could had hurt the ottomans alot. That raid on that camp could had finished the campaign against them if he did had the support of that right flank who knows. There were amazing battlefields back on those side with amazing wins for the ottomans but also for the european counter parts. Alot of amazing stories to bad it contained alot of innocent lives.

@Dana Scully You are all Latinized Bulgarians and Slavs. Romanian nation was invented in 1852 by France

Yosua yes

Yosua yes

it was a happy ending

Overall romania had a good ending . We are indeoendent , and bigger then ever before .bittersweet ending in present day

Rapstick wrong

@HistoryMarche Do Mircea the Old that's challenging but rewarding . My all time favourite! Besides, he s Vlad's grandfather:)

@HistoryMarche - You are the best in this historic animations. If you have posibility,try to make and some modern battles. Like example. I think you dont known abbaut battle of Bucharest after 23.08.1944, when German army tried to arest king,free Antonescu and occupy Romania and his capital. Whas an important battle on Baneasa. Romanian army,geandarmery,and civilians vs wermacht and luftwaffe,in final Romanians win ,without help of USSR how say Russian propaganda.

Mircea the elder,alexandru the good,Basarab 1 vs Carol de Anjou,etc. We have more battles.

You got your wish, fam.

There's more. Mircea the Elder and battle of Rovine against Bayazid. Petru Rares of Moldova (son of Stephen the Great) and how he killled Aloisius Gritti at Medias battle. John III the Terrible (Ioan Voda cel Cumplit). There;s a lot more.

He's still a sadist

@Andreas Karlsson Well I don't know if that's completely true but if it is then I guess the actions he committed aren't that horrible to an extent but still arguably disrespectful.

@Shemba Most of them were probably dead before being impaled. Impaling was common in the area. His cousin Stephen liked doing it in Moldavia. Sure, Vlad took it a step further, but there was no shortage of cruelty in this time, anywhere.

Yes he was, and no wonder Prince Charles asked some historian to fake an genealogical tree to declare he and his family is related to Vlad!

Maybe if Vlad focused more on killing Ottoman soldiers instead of Europeans,he would've had all the support he needed.

mihai000000 E Ştefan desigur dar în engleză e Steven

stevan the great"

Thank you very much for your generous words. Michael the Brave is definitely on the agenda!

The rivalries between Moldovan and Wallachian rulers always were kept at a personal level. The territorial disputes concerned only small border areas (Crăciuna, Chilia). More often than not a pretender was supported in order to have (possibly) a friendly neighbor and eventual battles resumed mostly to the clash of the small professional/mercenary part of the army, there were no invasions to grab territory. Sometimes battles were avoided due to last minute negotiations. The idea to unite the Romanian countries in a de facto alliance and later followed by attempts to create one state was certainly entertained in Vlad's time but, interestingly, it was actively pursued by several Hungarian leaders of Transylvania once Transylvania became mostly independent after Hungary's collapse. Those leaders too considered unification of the 3 political entities as such, not by carving into the neighbor's territory. This kind of unwritten accord maintained a balance which allowed a sometimes tense but viable coexistence. A natural balance, true, due to comparable size and manpower, for instance, but nonetheless remarkable. About the legends on Vlad. Most people don't know history, that's a fact for all countries. National pride embellishes certain historical figures. Various generations are permeated by various approaches of popular history (for instance, pre WW2 and post 1965(roughly) history vulgarizations were nationalistic, post WW2 until 1965 and post 1989 are imperial induced (obedience to USSR or obedience to the west colonial trends). Of course, the nationalist view is closer to the truth, for the simple fact you can't build a narrative over hundreds of years which vastly disregards facts and in the same time maintain a cohesive discourse while colonialist views don't give a damn on (a logical) continuity, on the contrary. But under both influences the Dracula negative, let alone vampiresques, legends never took a hold on Romanians, because they were perceived, without much knowledge of history, I repeat, as dissonant if not utter stupid. You can't sell a native something he instinctively senses as being foul play.

Actually McNally/Florescu is quite a poor source. A much better one, albeit older (40 years ago), but synthetic, is Ștefan Andreescu's: Vlad Țepeș (Dracula) - Între legendă și adevăr istoric [Vlad Țepeș (Dracula) - Between legend and historical truth]. A link for Romanian content (don't know if it was translated in other languages) - www.scribd.com/document/136360442/StefanAndreescu-Vlad-Tepes

I wrote this text on our Facebook page, maybe it answers your questions: "Myths vs facts: folk tales about Vlad the Impaler The Romanian people outside of the noble class never had, as far as historical evidence has survived, any memory tradition about him. The claim which you might have already heard (see the books of McNally/Florescu) that in some villages there survived tales and legends about him until well into the 19th century is not true. Ethnologists like Petre Ispirescu („Poveşti despre Vlad Vodă Ţepeş“) or Constantin Rădulescu-Codin („Legende“) who collected these tales and legends made it all up using the written German and Russian Dracula Stories (but also Chalcocondyles) because during their research they had not found anything which was clearly related to Vlad. Because they did not want to exclude such an important ruler like him from their folkloristic anthologies, they preferred to lie or, let’s judge them less severe, they preferred to act more like novelists or poets when writing about Vlad. Wanting to know if the Romanian tales are historical accounts or not, I visited a few years ago the Institute for Ethnology in Bucharest. I could talk there to qualified researchers and had a look upon the data once collected by professional ethnologists in all the regions of Wallachia. The results of their publications were gathered in a work by Tony Brill, written in the 1940s/50s but only published in the 2000s: Tony Brill: Tipologia legendei populare româneşti. Vol. 2: Legenda mitologică, legenda religioasă, legenda istorică. Ed. by Ioan Oprişan. Bucureşti 2006 Have a look at the introduction, the comparison of the concrete results (which are not very spectacular, but the same stories were again and again found about several voivodes) and especially at the pages 421-429. Later surveys like the one made by Georgeta Ene (supported by McNally and Florescu) in the 1960s have of course brought up many stories about Vlad told by peasant people. This was (and is) however a false memory because it was contaminated by the school education since the 19th century. People just grew up with the history lessons and books on the modern Vlad image and integrated it within their local memory. Interesting fact: the tales about his friend/ally/enemy Steven the Great, voivode of Moldova (1457-1504) are indeed historical. Steven however ruled for almost 48 years and had therefore plenty of time (and due to his wars and his vast resources also the means) to carve himself into the memory of all classes of society. Vlad with his 6 ½ years clearly did not."

I have Buican in my shelf and never read it because it is a popular biography which mixes all stories on Vlad. It may be entertaining but it is not accurate (as is the case of McNally/Florescu. The best book still is Stoicescu: Vlad Tepes (1976)). Some of the stories on Vlad are 19th century forgeries when romantic writers needed to invent Romanian traditions. It also happened that folktales about other rulers were wrongly attributed to Vlad the Impaler; this is where especially the stories around Peonari seem to come from.

Wow! That's an interesting point, that perhaps the Poenari battle did not actually take place. That's something I had not considered, as the fortress obviously faced many battles over the centuries. I assumed it had taken place, but that some of the more 'romantic' stories of his wife's suicide and the way he escaped may be made up or exaggerated, and have always been interested in learning more of what might really have happened. One book out of many I have read went into some details about the battle, including where the Turks placed their cannons on the mountain(s) etc. But that was a book entitled; 'The Impaler: A Biography of Vlad III Dracula' by Alexandru Buican, of course a Romanian source. I wonder where this detail comes from, or whether it's all just folktales?... I have read some bits of Chalkokondyles and many other sources, but, like you, have never found much definitive, which is of course difficult when studying such a 'dark age' of the middle ages.

Vlad was in peak of his power, by now he had very loyal people commanding beside him (at least in the army), he was going to be betrayed but only after the long imprisonment, during which obviously he lost his grip on things in Wallachia. So I agree that in this particular night attack , something must have gone wrong, as ShogunBean mentions maybe something like that.

It is likely though that he wasn't abandoned by his captain and that the support group just couldn't accomplish its task. A betrayal would have created much more reactions in the reports of the time, especially since there were many survivors after the battle able to testify (by contrast with another disputed case of possible betrayal at Kosovo, some decades earlier). The Wallachian forces were quite slim and unprofessional, with few exceptions probably also ill equipped. The maneuver was very difficult and it required a very accurate timing. You shouldn't always compare this with today's politicians or even with the later centuries of Wallachian history, when indeed betrayal was the case with some occasions. The Ottoman influence wasn't that much well imprinted in Wallachian politics in the 15th century, especially if it was the case with such an all-out invasion, when the sultan was there just to be taken out.

The greatest betrayal was still to come.... the sad part. Mathias kept Vlad imprisoned for 11 to 12 years. Some say his cousin Stefan helped to get him released, or it may just be that Vlad promised to marry one of Mathias' relatives, and made some kind of pact/deal that would give Mathias the upper hand. However after those 11 years imprisoned he returned and took once more the throne of Wallachia by force, only to be killed before or during a battle with Ottomans. Since they dont mention how he died, that was probably the worst kind of betrayal ... im sure he was double crossed , ottoman sources always mention , or even brag how events take place, sometimes they write poetry about such events, yet they dont mention anything on how the death of Vlad takes place. I would guess they either didnt know details or they were ashamed to write them down. (Yes it was probably the boyars that got him killed, wouldnt be first time they do it to a duke of his family). But whats also sad about it... obviously he lost a lot of his influence and strength during the long imprisonment .

Valid points indeed. I too think he was probably betrayed.

Thank you very much for the positive feedback, a lot of effort went into this video. It's great to see viewers finding it informative.

Thank you very much for the kind words.

Thank you very much sir. Glad you found the video informative.

@Monty de Vere you can watch it as a movie then. It's still entertaining, which is actually the purpose of a movie anyway

I wouldn't use a film made in communist Romania as a source of truth. In these cases 'mostly' is not enough, only hard evidence!

Thank you very much for watching NicoD

@HistoryMarche are you talk in this video ?

@HistoryMarche are you talk in this video 🤔

@HistoryMarche your people arnt being oppressed by ottomans.....yet

@Ben W good points :(

@bla bla Naturally, I am not saying it’s not a fascinating bit of history and I would never suggest that we shouldn’t study it. I completely agree with you, my point was just that we need to look at historical events objectively, it is important to understand the why and how, but also that I think we have many better role models throughout the annals of history than the military men who are the most studied and commended. My point was just that a good society and a good world shouldn’t be crafted in the image of men who, by necessity, were forced to slaughter. Violence is not a good personality trait, and I just think we ought to be wary when we heap praise upon people such as him.

Thank you kindly sir. A lot of work went into this mini-series. And indeed, a 15min+ video makes it possible to include a lot more good information that viewers can find interesting. This is much more difficult in a 10min format where a lot has to be omitted or simplified.

Thank you kindly for your generous words. A lot of effort went into this video so it's very nice to see such positive feedback.

Thank you Lachezar, truly appreciate your positive feedback.

The fact is that even if the names were mispronounced, no one could be angry because the video is very interesting and informative. It's just really awesome that you put so much attention to detail and make sure that even the small things get done right!

Thanks, Calin Cretu was a massive help with the pronunciations

Thank you kindly Justinian.

Thank you so much Alex. I will surely do more Ottoman battles as well as topics from the Balkan and Carpathian regions.

Me too! It will however take some time for a video because HistoryMarche is always trying, as you can see, to produce quality content. There are already enough weak, click-bait videos out there...

Albert Weber Well I'm glad someonr replied. Yes, Mihai barely has any video about him. I'd like to see one.

As far as I am informed, HistoryMarche is preparing a video on Calugareni. It's impossible to ignore Michael when speaking about Eastern Eruopean military history...

HistoryMarche Hello.. I know you maybe won't see this and you also maybe not take into consideration... can you make a vid abour Michael the Brave? T'was one hell of a man

Vlad was arrested by the Hungarians because he refused to give up his fight against Radu the Handsome and king Matthias Corvinus feared that this would provoke the sultan to attack Hungary (Matthias was Vlad's sovereign and therefore responsible for his actions). So Matthias locked him up and spread the word that Vlad was the worst tyrant of all time. But he did not kill him because 1) Vlad was married to a relative of Matthias, meaning that an heir would qualify the royal family of Hungary for the Wallachian throne in the future 2) Vlad was a highly skilled general specialized on fighting the Ottomans. He was too valuable to be killed, so Matthias put him in the Visegrád Castle for some time (an honourable detention place for noblemen) and reactivated him later when a new major war with the Ottomans broke out.

Thank you kindly sir. Next up is Hannibal episode 2, hopefully it'll be finished by late July or early August. Indeed I agree, I've discussed betrayal in other comments as well. Whenever I read about any battle where betrayal changed the outcome I get a weird sinking feeling in my stomach.

@Ismail Seyam Not trying to pull out a fight or something man , just speaking my mind. He got that cruel image cause of propaganda and marketing too. Dont get me wrong , in todays standards , what he was doing ( with the rest of the rulers of that era , cause as i mentioned he wasnt the only one who tortured) is fucking demonic.

@Ismail Seyam Talking about being low , some years back i was reading about imapling and it says that Vlad wasnt the father of this trend . In fact ottomans used that method often along with decapitation , way before Țepes. Vlad just got inspired by his ottoman surroundings , where he actually lived with his brother while they were young. We shouldnt be talking about whats low and not because back in those times people would have done far wore wooorse things than we would do nowdays and of course that the repercussions were scary .

He's in hell now for worshipping the dragon, as are sultans and heretic kings.

The Ottoman empire also had many enemies at the time.. They also had to fight within the country and part of it is mentioned in the video ffs,, vlad was winning because his forces were much more mobile,, if the hungarians came and the battle became an open field clash, the Ottomans would have had the advantage,, the hungarians standing still was in vlad's favor at first,, till he was arrested anyways.. He was really good at guerrilla warfare like mentioned in the video, but what he did to dead bodies and killing the civilians was really low

El_3skrAziz_Gmz 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Thank you kindly.

HistoryMarche Nevermind, I’ve found the Patreon page in order to support! Thank you!

@HistoryMarche Absolutely agree on the tremendous effort, passion and energy put into every one of this videos. As a senior software dev and having collaborated with graphic designers in the past, as well as a long time history afficionado I think I have a fair idea on the amount of research, project planning and execution effort that goes into these videos. I really love your videos, the animation and narration style and I think they are even better than those on Kings and Generals, which says a lot. Given the right amount of resources and time I think you would really kill it as a specialized channel on youtube. The only current setback as I see it is the long waiting times between videos which I understand is due to lack of resources but this really matters. I would like to make a small donation in order to support this channel if you point me on where to do that.

Thank you kindly sir! Very glad you like the video. A lot of effort went into this.

Thank you so much. It's so very nice to see when viewers notice the effort that goes into this.

Thank you kindly sir.

If it's no trouble, please share the video.

Thank you Carlos. Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated as always. I sometimes insert details about arms and armor, like in the Battle of Hemmingstedt video, where types of weapons, armor and artillery carried great significance to the story. Having said that, equipment is always an interesting topic, but it's often hard to choose what to include and what to exclude, without making the video too long. However, I do plan on occasionally making 'video specials' that don't include battles, but rather focus on topics like castle building, weapons, armor, tactics, leader biographies etc.

@bigbaba1111 yes unfortunately

@Movie Jose dude your so right.

@Sinan Ermiş Vlad has no equivalent in romanian history...from completely entirely another point of view! It is the way history is taught.: please be informed that Vlad ' s main image in Romania is not his external deeds, but internal achievements. I don t want to say people are not proud of his fightings, but his main traits of character, his individuality come up from his INTERNAL regime. Try to imagine that the bloodish part is not emphasised at all, considered enemy saxon etc written propaganda about him, (and carefully counter-claimed in own version of propaganda style) and this is possible just because another segment of legends and stories and prints entered the public opinion, i would call it propaganda but still had not been used by populists because easily can be overturned against them. These stories popular in Romania show Vlad as a judger and reformer, just, fair, symbol of internal justice, symbol of the fight against corruption before even the notion of fighting against corruption, symbol of protecting the poor against the abuses of the rich. Fair and tough also, but for a reason, social justice. He is THE maker of a just society, an ideal. Imagine that the romantic poets of the xix century right exclusively about the need to have a nowadays vlad for internal reasons, to fight the injustice of the corrupt politicians....So a part of the story entirely different from foreigners' influx.

@Dukak Temür yaylıg well there should be a logical explanation for that, don t you think? :) we are talking precisely of honor in taking proud of Vlad, but! There is a but! Vlad has no equivalent in romanian history...from completely entirely another point of view! It is the way history is taught.: please be informed that Vlad ' s main image in Romania is not his external deeds, but internal achievements. I don t want to say people are not proud of his fightings, but his main traits of character, his individuality come up from his INTERNAL regime. Try to imagine that the bloodish part is not emphasised at all, considered enemy saxon etc written propaganda about him, (and carefully counter-claimed in own version of propaganda style) and this is possible just because another segment of legends and stories and prints entered the public opinion, i would call it propaganda but still had not been used by populists because easily can be overturned against them. These stories popular in Romania show Vlad as a judger and reformer, just, fair, symbol of internal justice, symbol of the fight against corruption before even the notion of fighting against corruption, symbol of protecting the poor against the abuses of the rich. Fair and tough also, but for a reason, social justice. He is THE maker of a just society, an ideal. Imagine that the romantic poets of the xix century right exclusively about the need to have a nowadays vlad for internal reasons, to fight the injustice of the corrupt politicians....So a part of the story entirely different from foreigners' influx.

Can you just imagine a nation which calls vlad tepes as their hero just because he achieved some night attack to ottoman military "CAMP" during all the soldier sleeps. Lolz big time

Hey ciripa, thank you kindly! I mostly compile lists of interesting battles, but lately my list is mostly made up of requests from viewers who request battles in the comment section. From that list I pick a shortlist of 5-10 battles before I start making a new video and let my patrons vote on which of these 5-10 topics will be produced next. So a large degree of control over what will be produced is in the hands of my patrons. And next up is Hannibal episode 2. After that there will be a new round of voting on my Patreon page, in August I think.

Yilmaz Kilinc This is history and must be accepted as it is,, it's not a legend, we honor our heroes just like you honor your heroes.

Yilmaz Kilinc As long as no one insult you, your nation or your history, how do you allow yourself to do that? This is about education, nothing else.

@William Kartatar ヅ None of the Hungarian kings to Trianon were Hungarian, none of the Hungarian poets until Trianon were Hungarians,this is known, but how do you know that Mircea and Vlad were cuman? . Hungarian stories.

With my all respect may I ask did you guys know Hungarian Hero Árpád,Hunyadi And Romanian hero Vlad,Bassarab had Cuman Turkic ancestry?

Hey mate. Always nice to receive praise from a fellow History KZonlinesr. I love your channel!

thank you once again

Thank you kindly Ahmed. Quality over quantity will always be the motto, hence why I cannot upload so often. Videos like these take about 200 work hours to make. The Battle of Mohacs is definitely on the list from which I let my patrons vote on which topics will be covered next.

We will soon cover the Battle of Calugareni, but we'll also do other topics from the Carpathians. Thank you for watching.

Thank you sir.

I look forward to it! And I hope to get my own channel started in the next several months

Thank you kindly, glad you liked the video. Skanderbeg is definitely on the list Glad I could be of assistance with After Effects.

Thank you very much. Yes, I'm very delighted that TGCP was interested in sponsoring the video. We negotiated for Targoviste part 1 as well, but couldn't make the arrangements in time. Luckily, here it is at least in Targoviste part 2.

Thank you so much sir. Very kind of you!

HistoryMarche time is of essence juz like the whole mission impossible thing. Haha 😆 agent Dracula 🧛‍♂️!!!

Thank you, glad you noticed the time counter. It was meant to convey the fact that the whole encounter lasted from about 9:30PM until next morning.

Shameful display! :)

Thank you kindly mate! Good to see you taking the time to stop by. I literally didn't have time to view some of your new videos, but they're surely awesome!

Thank you kindly sir.

Thank you kindly. Welcome to the channel.

That's just a legend.

that maniac could never

He could have overthrown the Ottoman Empire, but he would never have overthrown Sultan Mehmed because they were educated together as children and Mehmed knew him

@ShanghaiRooster If it wasn't for Timur, everything would have happened sooner.Don't ignore our own conflicts.

@h y Varna was fought in 1396, almost a century after the rise of Osman I in Anatolia, who fought campaigns against the Byzantines from the mid-1280s until his death circa 1323/4. Don't ignore the vital groundwork of the foundation of the empire.

@ShanghaiRooster You should learn Ottoman history impartially.The bullshit of the loser Ottoman subjects is too much.Even the rise of the ottoman began after defeating the crusader coalition(Battle of Varna).Ottomans beat Spain in Tunisia.Must watch this battle video of Extra Credits.

Thank you kindly. Didgori has been suggested a lot. I will surely include it in the next voting poll on my Patreon page.

Thank you kindly Bogdan.

😂 This must be the case 90%

I loled :))))

@HistoryMarche Yeah well people notice the things they like... I like hashis. ^_^

You're literally the first person that commented on this :)

Thank you kindly sir, glad you like the content.

Thank you very much for your generous words. This has been my biggest project to date, a lot of research went into it in collaboration with 4 history professors from Germany.

Thank you sir. Part 2 is by far my biggest undertaking to date. A lot of effort and research went into this video. I'm so grateful to the authors of Corpus Draculianum for helping me in my research, these 4 professors are true experts in the field and in this particular topic.

Thank you kindly sir. Those are some great suggestions, I'll be sure to add them to the list and let my patrons vote (next round of voting will be after the Hannibal episode 2, in August).

Haha, I love the comparison with LoL

HistoryMarche Glad to know that!

Skanderbeg is definitely on the list of topics from which my patrons can choose to vote which topics will be covered next.

Thank you kindly sir.

Thank you very much for watching and welcome to the channel. We'll definitely do more on Genghis Khan over time.

Welcome to the channel.

This was a mini two-part series. I had a script for 4 parts but I thought that 4 episodes might be too much. However, I'm working with professor Albert Weber on a video special about Vlad Tepes, so you can expect more videos on this topic.

@HistoryMarche I love that music

Hey Kadir, thank you kindly for your generous words. I plan to include late 17th century Holy League vs Ottoman empire in the next round of voting on my Patreon page, in August, along with 5-6 other topics on the short list. As for the song, it's a custom-edited soundtrack for the video. I will be uploading the video's soundtrack to my Patreon page.

in his first rule he gathered the boyars that betrayed his father and impaled all of them, including their wives, then gave their lands to only people he can trust, but alas, as you can also tell from Crusader kings, nobles are always ready for a good ol' backstabbing as they're never fucking satisfied with anything.

I think that betrayal is why he choose the stake way. According to chronicles, the 1st feast he had with his boyard after taking the throne he asked them how many state head did they knew during their life, and some claimed to have survived dozens of them, that's what sealed their fate.

Thank you so much Radu!

it wasnt a decoy, he got word from the betrayers

Thank you sir. Welcome to the channel.

Thank you sir, you're most kind. Alex's voice over is indeed great.

❤️ Thank you very much sir.

❤️ - Yes, hardly anyone has sent their selfies for the 50-immortals video. I'll have to post again on my Patreon page to gather the selfies. I truly want to commemorate the first 50 patrons who helped the channel from the start by including their selfies in one of my future videos, as soon as I gather all of the selfies. Please send yours.

Glad that I could help :). I hope that your channel will grow a lot and I'll even try to get some of my friends to become patrons on you Patreon page. They won't get in the 50 immortals, but at least I am :). Btw, I have to send you my selfie in order to get that photo-caricature :).

Hey Radu! Glad to see you here. Thank you very much for your kind words and thank you for helping us with math calculations for the size of the Ottoman camp!! ❤️❤️❤️

I know exactly what you mean - you are always going to get those people who complain that it is not 'historical enough'! I got some troll whining that I had Byzantine Empire on one of my maps - and how it wasn't a historical accurate name. In the end - you are not just a youtuber - but an artist. A lot of people can not do what you do. Let me see if I can find some cavalry charging effects now . . .

Hey man! Thank you so much, positive feedback from a fellow history KZonlinesr who's work I greatly respect is always awesome to see. ❤️❤️ Believe it or not I mostly find free sound effects online and then step on them in Sound Forge and/or Fruity Loops (now called FL Studio). It's possible to find better sound editing software out there, but I've been using Sound Forge and Fruity Loops for what seems like decades, it's a tough habit to break :). I too like adding a bit of humor with chat bubbles and emojis, just can't give that up even though I've had a fair amount of complaints.

@HistoryMarche ooo

Thank you very much. Next up is Hannibal episode 2

Thank you very much!

@Jesus Christ wassup jesus

@Jesus Christ Holy shit, it's Jesus!

LMAO ❤️❤️❤️

I have nothing to do with the video

Thank you kindly sir! ❤️

@Marcel Costache remember. Ottoman kills because they accuse armenian supporting russian. I mean of course armenian support russia why would they not. Russian are othrodox christian like them. While Vlad literally will kill anyone who stand in his way. A mad king and lad

@Marcel Costache And that's not even mentioning the greek genocide in Anatolia

And cheers!

Thank you kindly.