The Battle of Lechfeld 955 AD
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Love the level of detail and build up upto the battle. It's very important to understand the back story prior to the battle. God job with the video :)
100% agree. Really great job! No one else does context like you guys. Just one tiny mistake in this vid. East Francia did not get all of Italy in the aftermath of the battle. Just most of the Lombard lands aka the "kingdom of Italy". The Byzantines still controlled the South of the peninsula. :)
Thumbs up for that. Never realised how close i live to the lechfeld. (Ulm is in bicycle reach to me.) Also was very surprised to see that die Magyars raided deeply beyond my little swabian country. Gives it a total different feeling. I could walk to lechfeld in probably a day or so, didn't seem so far away anymore....
But can´t stop to say, impressive choice of the german exclamations....every single one was(in some aspects) wrong ;)
always so grim when the line breaks, and the first unit is flanked, the men are doomed...
Having a little civil war just after the coronation of a new king? Any Ck2-player knows that all too well^^
oh yes
does it even count otherwise?
SuperAerie right, "little"
its how you celebrate the crown, right?
Gotta revoke that gavelkind
I lived in Augsburg for a few years. It's a wonderful city with a lot of history and the battle of the Lechfeld is heavily remembered by the people of Augsburg up to this day.
Loved the video! Desch is a guds video!
I like Augsburg too was there twice
Ah, a new video on Earths military history. I’ve been waiting for this.
Why are you loafing about watching TH-cam videos? Don't you have a rebellion to crush?
You like this art right? But do you understand it?
Grand Admiral Thrawn grand admiral, why are you on every channel I like?
Paul Clarke explains why the Empire is doomed
I loved you in Avatar.
10:42 AUSZUROTTEN !!! well that escalated quickly
About time to start paying a bit more attention to non-English bubbles :) I can't get more embarrassed.
Conrad the Red confirmed as Cartman.
as someone who lives in germany i understand what you mean - but boy can it be tough to use the "old" german language (altough that word is used nowadays too) as someone who doenst speak todays german fluently.
A better Phrase would be "AUSROTTEN !"
or "ROTTET SIE AUS" :D
But seriously - i think everyone just loves you for putting in those little bubbles with the correct language and often also pretty good and fitting phrases - sometimes even informative - i for example didnt know that they knew about the dark side of the force in 955 ad
"ausrotten" would be better yeah. though "exterminate!" still sounds kinda harsh and more like a thing hitler would say.
"leave no one alive!" probably because i don't think they were thinking so about genocide, nations and final solutions that much. "exterminate" refers to every hungarian, "kill them all" to all hungarians that are present. not to say they wouldn't have done it, if they could, just saying they didn't think that far or that they considered it a possibility. they didn't have the logistics and resources for that back then.
Very well done! As a hungarian |'m proud for my nation to be recognized in such fashion. Nice vid BazBattles! Keep it going like this!
I kinda hoped the Hungarian won.
You not have be proud. Magyarsz looted in Ausburg, than in the forest the supplies from Bohemian soldiers. Lehl laid that he wants to use blow his horn but he wanted to hit Otto I. Still proud?
@@jurajjanosik7494 This is not a Trianon topic.
@@islamicschoolofmemestudiesHi my Friend! the Hungarians won many battles and were very strategic at the time... but Westerners do not like to recognize the glorious history of a nomadic horseman people who managed to invade them and establish themselves definitively in the Europe...
history textbooks do not relate, for example, the battle of 1285 when the Hungarians definitively expelled the Mongols and how the Hungarians saved the Westerners
SO AWESOME
You’ve come a long way History time
Loved your tour of 1000AD!
i love you man
@@thewelldweller3092 even I am like man
The Attila Total war soundtrack ahhhhh maybe they campaigned on the post-Carolingian era with Magyars, Saracens and Vikings; I think it would make sense since there is a Charlemagne campaign and the game deals with the era of the great invasions/migrations that ends precisely in the tenth century
As a Hungarian I found this video kinda sad. But thanks to this lost battle, Hungary picked up christianity, and was able to remain a country in Europe. No other nomadic tribe from the east was able to achieve this. Thanks Otto, I guess.
Btw, the Hungarian leaders said;
6:47 Egézségedre - Cheers!
11:08 Mi a franc? - What the hell?
11:22 Átrendez - Regroup!
I suppose in this imperfect world of our you have to look at the bright side of everything.
Thanks for translations!
I believe the Bulgars similarly transformed from steppe coalition to European nation.
If by slaughtered, you mean created a very large nation, on the lands of the richest country in Europe and whose successor state bears the same name to this day, then yes. An analogous thing happened in France, by the way - the Germanic Frankish elite picked up the local language and was absorbed, while the original name remained.
Genghis Khan Slaughtered by slavs? The local slavs rebelled against the Byzantine empire by joining the bulgars. What alternate history were you learning?
Thanks to Vatican.
You're missing a very important part of the Hungarian or as you call eastern style of fighting - that is the planned withdrawal of the horse archers that is meant to cause the enemy to break rank and follow. This tactic worked multiple times before as heavy cavalry units broke up in chasing a seemingly feeling enemy until they were exhausted and quickly surrounded one by one by the light cavalry. This has won many battles for the Hungarians before. Otto's genius is that he studied this type of warfare while paying taxes to the Hungarians to gain time and drilled his troops to not break formation and not initiate the chase upon the feigned retreat. Hungarian horse archers, while being far more mobile and being able to shoot backwards from the saddle 3 arrows/second, were not suited for mass melee combat against a packed formation of heavy cavalry. Also, the loss of 10,000 cavalry represented half of all existing Hungarian forces - forcing the Hungarians to abandon future raids.
Andras Libal in order not to be drawn to the fleeing horse archers, the slower army needs ranged weapons of its own. Some used catapults, some used war wagons, some simply used foot archers. But if you don't have the ranged weapons then you are screwed even if you do not chase.
@@nomooon with some exceptions, the vanguard of the first crusade would come to mind, which demounted and formed a shieldwall around their baggage train and war-horses, withstanding the better part of a day constant barages by mongolian turkish horsearchers untill the main cavalry force was able to relieve them.
@@boahkeinbockmehr what if they didn't have that relief force ;)
@@nomooon then it would have been a battle of supplies, bandages versus arrows ^^ though even with the reliefe force they beat a numerical far superior mounted archer force without fielding a significant amount of missile units in the country of and the battlefield/ ambush chosen by the horse-archers.
@@boahkeinbockmehr I remember that battle was won by relief force going all the way around to the back of the Seljuks... That is a high requirement to beat. So it can happen, but very rare.
Love these videos. I appreciate the effort put into them thankyou guys
"DO YOU BOXES WANT TO LIVE FOREVER!?!?"
This is why you dont go gavelkind and only go elective monarchy smh
Crusader Kings ;)
It's so annoying when your king you just started with a few weeks ago dies and you're left with some fractured remains of your empire
But Primogeniture is ok too...
But being able to select your best son/grandson is better.
My Councillor, Glitterhoof, says neigh.
it's clear how much time and effort goes into these videos, they are better each time - keep it up!
Acording to Hungarian legends Duke Conrad didn't die to an arrow, he was killed by Lehel. When Lehel was captured he was brought to the face of the Duke and King and asked to choose his death. Lehel asked for his horn to make a sound one last time before struck down, but when he got it he used it as a weapon and killed Conrad in one sweep, saying "You will go before me to death, so you can serve me in the afterlife" Not surprisingly he was then immidietly executed.
emphasis on *LEGENDS* of course, since they obviously wanted to glorify their leader
"so you can serve me in the afterlife" Very common in Turanid Tengriism religion same thing had been done by Huns,Gokturks and Scythians(Szekely) too.
That's like some fucking hollywood scene starring Venicio Del Toro
Real life truly is cheesy
Lol serbs have the almost same legend on sultan murat death on battle of kosovo....these legends all look like copy/paste
Well this legend was written down in 12th century Chronicles.
I’ve never seen such a high quality military history video. Well done! I learned lots, thanks!
Y’know Germany seems to have had some awfully awesome generals in history
ze Deutsche's Reich ist UBER
Mégis a magyarok győztek általában.
@@spirit-studio no
"I used to be a master general like you, but then I took an arrow to the neck." - Endnote Nr. 1
These videos are just fantastic! i LOVE how you show all the info and events that led up to the battles you showcase. im so very impressed by the quality you put out and i smile everytime i see one of them in my subscription feed.
Cheers from sweden and thank you for your hard work!!
Thanks for these. Way back when I was in High School i was so into battles and military strategy. It's like my wishes finally came true to help explain these things and bring context to the situations.
That ulm will someday conquer the world on itself. I don't advise camping there, Otto
Eu4 reference
Ulm is a star in Stellaris as well lmao.
Once I had a game with a 850 development Ulm. They only had one province.
Einstein was born in Ulm...
Your videos are amazing, keep it up!
This video seems to demonstrate a significant increase in quality and depth. I appreciate the effort.
Another fantastic video! Well done!
i like the german speech bubbles
This and your other videos are a great resource for those who are interested in history. The background of what led to the battle as well as an understanding of the players is very interesting. I love to watch and at the same time google the details (such as the holy lance in this video) that you mention. Thank you for this and all your other videos
Damn fine work, Baz. You are getting better and better, and you started off well above average from what I've seen. I really look forward to these vids, and this one is brilliantly executed.
Great channel. I've see others with similar content but you have a unique way of putting all the information together in a simple yet informative way.
Mm history
I love these narrated historical videos!
Great detail, thanks for uploading.
I was cyclimg just south of Augsburg yesterday and stumbled upon a tiny monument next to a road. I remembered to google the name of the battle today and was stunned at its importance. Great video.
this time period and magyar invasions of europe have always been glossed over in modern history. glad to see so many decisive battles concerning magyars being discussed on this channel
Just discovered this channel and blown away by the great content. Haven't got any work done today haha.
Would love to see you do the battle of Agincourt or the battle of Waterloo :)
Sadly they haven't made one about Agincourt, but Historia Civilis did. I would recommend you that channel if you haven't heard of it yet.
I highly recommend that video. One of the few Medieval topics treated by Historia Civilis.
Another channel, Epic History TV has already done the battle of waterloo in a similar style.
Agincourt and waterloo are redone to death
Historia Civilis has material on Agincourt, and Kings and Generals has an ongoing series on Napoleon, so far reaching Friedland. In a couple of months they will get to Waterloo. It was such an odd battle, though. Hadn´t Grouchy fallen ill from the strawberries he ate, Gérard would not have taken command of Grouchy´s division to send them crashing down on Wellington´s left flank, thereby securing victory for Napoleon at the last minute.
As always, great job!
Absolutely loved this video. Can’t wait too see you’re next one :D
It all sounds great, basically founding the HRE, an imperial dynasty, stopping the Hungarian raids ... but by grabbing those Italian possessions he doomed all future efforts to centralize the Empire, keeping his successors tied up in running back and forth over the Alps.
Maybe the name of the anime? Please
@@ghfg4402 Took me a moment wondering which anime featured the HRE, but assuming you mean my avatar, that's from Nichijou.
@@_SpamMe thanks
It was perhaps better that way though. The struggle between emperors and popes fostered the atmosphere that gave birth to Renaissance city-states. Several emperors seemed to be enamored with Rome and Italy, Otto I included, so they invested significant effort into developing Italian culture. The Italians sure love their Federico II. And Petrarca and other Renaissance scholars did want even more influence from the Empire (the emperor of their time, Karl IV, or Karel IV as it should be, resisted moving to Rome though.). Decentralization fostered the religious reformations and many strong cities which now serve as European capitals. The German elites were the major source of new blood for European more centralized dynasties as well. German heroes, emperors and soldiers and poets, tend to be more "visionary"/dreamy rather than "strategic"/realistic, and many favoured their maternal/uxorial side over their paternal side, but Europe has benefitted majorly from that.
Thanks for this. I used to live on the Lechfeld so I've often wondered where the battle took place. Turns out I lived some distance away in the south, but the whole of the Lechfeld is perfect for warfare using cavalry so I can understand why Otto chose that as a battle site.
A few years ago I moved from Bavaria to Swabia, and learned it is pronounced Sch-vay-bee-ah.
Actually Augsburg and the Lechfeld are Swabian too, though they may be administered by Bavarians from Munich. Some kind of domestic colonialism.
This was excellent. One of my favorite videos so far. Love the topic selection - important enough to touch on known concepts like the Holy Roman Empire, but obscure enough that I had no idea what it would lead to until you spell it out right at the end.
Great video as usual, was worth the wait :) love the trivia part at the end.keep on the good work
8:49 "Duke Conrad the red!"
8:52 "God with us!"
10:02 "Ambush!"
10:44 "To exterminate!" (also meant as a comparison to pests)
10:57 "Back to the king"
13:43 "New emperor!" (The "new" part is gramatically wrong. In this constallation it would seem that there are multiple new emperors. No offense though.)
also "To exterminate!" seems a little bit wrong too - the "-zu-" should be left out in the world and it would be perfect i think :)
Especially since the "!" means he is giving an order - to exterminate - but he would use the imperativ not the (damn i forgot the word) "normal" unchanged word.
Spartan4free Yes, you are totally right! There I left out the explaination, because the mistake translates to English as well, for the "Neue Kaiser!" part it didn't quite...
I could imagine it to still make some sort of sense: Picture the commander, after being asked for orders, just pointing at the Hungarians screaming "TO EXTERMINATE! RIGHT THERE!! DALEKS ASSEMBLE!!!"
Maybe next time! =)
Ur name is good, publish sth
To be fair, to a non-German speaker, neu/neue/neuer/neues/neuem/neuen/etc. is confusing as fuck
Fr33c0r3 - Gaming & Stuff Agreed! =)
"Join the Dark Side!"
- (Another) Duke Eberhard 937 AD
As usual - excellent work;. especially the historical background leading up to the battle.
Yet again an amazing presentation, keep up the good work baz :)
A SHAMFULL DISHPLAY!
Stefan Anonomush A shamefur dispray*
Wrong side of Earth buddy
“I used to be a warrior like you, until I took an arrow to the neck”
- Conrad
greatly enjoy these!
Much appreciated videos, thank you!!!!
MY GOD I LOVE THIS CHANNEL!!!!!!
sweet sweet bazbattles
I like that you make videos about lesser known battles, keep it up!
Arguably one of the best history channel on TH-cam, lots of detail especially in maps, I would love to see the battle of Grunwald, keep up the great work !
Your videos are so amazing! Do you think you could do a tutorial or maybe a "behind the scenes" video?
Håkon Lillebo Would like that!
It would be awesome to know the source material used!
It would be great to see how he makes this all happen.
I love how they drew Thankmar like a goober. That had to be intentional.
I love the level of detail you put into your video.
Another masterpiece! BazBattles is one of my favourite TH-cam channels. Thank you for bringing us back in touch with our European history!
The Hungarian army was near 10 000 soldiers, divided by 4 brigades, 2500 soldiers in each, 7500 under Bulcsú's command directly, and 2500 under Lehel's command. The wheather and the conditions were not optimal for equestrian archery during the battle and this significantly influenced the outcome of the battle.
A magyarok csapdába lettek csalva és lemészárolták. Ezért volt a rettenetes bosszú Lechfeld miatt. Érdekes módon ezt nem tanítják.
@@spirit-studio Igen, de a csapda is a körülmények miatt sikerülhetett. Optimális körülmények között a lovasíjászokat nem igazán lehet elkapni. Ezek hiánya miatt akkor és ott viszont lehetett. Köd, sötétség, sár, eső, hó nagyban csökkenti a lovasíjászok hatékonyságát. Szép időben, ha messze az ellenség, akkor közelebb lovagolnak, mielőtt bajba kerülnének, akkor elvágtatnak, ha üldöznék őket, akkor hátrafelé is tudnak nyilazni. Nem nagyon lehet elkapni őket. Augsburgnál viszont nem voltak ideálisak a körülmények a lovasíjászathoz.
@@Akitlosz Ebben a "topikban" én is ezt olvastam. Ajánlanék egy könyvet ami ingyenesen letölthető a neten, meg fogod találni. Még az eleje felé beszél valamennyit a csatáról, nem kell végigolvasni.
Botos László: Hazatérés
It is rare to see videos about the creation of the HRE lovin it
More!! i love this stuff!!!
superb job as always BazBattles
Can you do the Danish Viking king Sweyn Forkbeard's invasion and conquest of England? There's rich history there; he rebelled against his father, Harald Bluetooth, and allegedly invaded England because the English crown killed many Danes, including Sweyns sister, Gundhild. It's a pretty awesome background story to Cnut the Great (or as we call him, Knud the Great).
I'd love to see that.
Agree, the history of Danes/Viking raids to England is very interesting and the battles even more cause there were usually a lot of retreats where the enemy doesn't get finished, and menage to counter-attack. Thumbs up so Baz can see.
read vinland saga. you'll love it
Yeah, It made me think of this manga. Excellent stuff and Cnut is badass
Also, Cnut the Great is the direct descendant of Sigurd Ragnarsson, or better known as Sigurd "snake-in-the-eye"
Yes finally!
Another great offering. Thank You.
Love your videos man keep them coming!
Bulcsú was the famous magyar leader and even thought in those times many hungarian was still pagan Bulcsú was already christian. Its true what you were saying about my nation but those plunders are were also to find the lost Avar treasures and it is believed that it was to find the holy crown of Attila the Hun. Bulcsú had the highest ranking in Hungary the Horka/Harka but not only this one he was also titled as Guest friend of Byzantine Emperor and Roman Patrician. Greetings form Hungarian Highlands.
Àltalànossàgban emlìtem meg: aki nem keresztèny, az nem azonos a barbàrral. A Nyugati keresztes hadak fosztogattak Magyarorszàgon-làm, nem csak a sztyeppei hordàk fosztogatnak-a Szentföldön pedig kannibalizmust gyakoroltak(Szàntai Lajos alapjàn).
We missed you :-|
Awesome job.keep going with this
Great to find videos like these showing the bigger picture as well as many details, who was who etc. Just found this channel today and I will keep watching more!
I still understood this after getting drunk. Bazbattles is by far the most detailed yet simple to understand military strategy vid. Best military vids on You Tube!
God, that voice!
Great narration, vocabulary, animation, detail. Just a great video overall good work mate. Subscribed.
What a splendid and informative video, great job on the explanations before Lechfeld, and on the battle animation, makes me want to play this battle with miniatures, love this troubled period...Thanks for this!👍
Can you do The Battle of Stiklestad? It's the most famous battle of Norway!
Seems like you got your wish :)
Never heard of it. XD
Sanderp I'm from the future and I'm here to tell you he made the video!
Ah, the Battle of Augsburg.
Such a shame for the early-hungarian warfare, but a needed defeat for us. With this battle, Otto killed most of the powerful chiefs and tribal leaders, the opposing force against the reformist hungarian leaders, like Géza, who used the actual political turmoil to overthrow the pagan rulers and enforce christianity over Hungary, later his son, Stephen I. (the Saint) crushed the remaining pagan lords and crowned himself as the King of Hungary.
Well, as a german i really like the hungarians... but i also have to say; you kinda had it coming to you back then, for pissing off many people and invading foreign soil you should have crossed with a hand in peace, not with a drawn sword.
However, you are right that it was necessary to get defeated. Maybe hungary wouldn't exist today if it wasn't for the reformation. This way the hungarians could find a diplomatic solution with their neighbours instead of getting conquered and consumed by it's neighbours.
Over 50 successfull Hungarian campaigns were lead to Europe by the Hungarian tribes. Many of them were based on invitations from local rulers to play as mercenery troops. The primary goal was not spoil or gain land, but keep up the political instability of the region. Especially avoiding the warring germanic tribes to unite. Once the Roman Empire was established there was no reason to have any military activity to the west.
And then Christianity did its bloody job destroying the ancient culture via a civil war as they did in every european nation spreading christianity with blood and iron.
Did the defeat play also into the conversion to christianity? As victories against the odds were often seen as divine intervention, proving perhabs to some magyars that the christian god of the saxxons held greater power than their tribal ones
@Rom_troy They weren't the original inhabitants of this region, so their claim wasn't justified. The one who takes it by force will be driven out by force.
This region was firstly settled by celtic and then by germanic tribes.
Also the hungarians are not lechites, the germans are not lechites. They consist of all kinds of ethnical groups. If you think that all germans are western germanic you are very wrong. They also have slavic, celtic and northern germanic roots. And it does not matter, the germans with slavic roots still identify as germans.
Also not all hungarians are of slavic descend.
The swabians and bavarians inhabitated this realm for many centuries and the motivation behind the hungarian invasion was not justice but pure greed.
Also; When do you claim which realm belongs to which people?
It's most likely that nobody really knows what people lived in this realm before it was firstly documentated.
That's how the world works. The strong take from the weak. People get defeated and used for foreign interests. Germany could sing a song about it.
Even if we are all so "just" and "morale" these days, the core of survival never changed.
@@justicartiberius8782 As a Hungarian, I agree with you.
Always awesome to see a new video.
Who knew that history could be so enjoyable to watch. Great video. :)
The Hungarians were sort of the land-locked vikings... 😊
Brilliant map support! Makes it much easier to follow the dynamics and overview the geography! 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hallands Menved That explains why, to this day, we’re still a bunch of crazy fuckers!!!🤣🤣🤣
Kivéve persze ha kellett nektek valami. Akkor kedves magyarok voltunk.
@@spirit-studio Still and always dear Hungarians to me! 🇩🇰❤🤗
Nice Ulm meme
An so Ulm, once again, could not be stopped!
i am pretty sure thats the reason why they won yeah...
after that point they went on full world conquest
New Ulm Order
Hey @SnippingTool, did you know that the real guy in your profile pic is Hungarian? :DDDD
Nice.
Keep up the great work!
Beautiful. Loved it!
A sagittis Hungarorum libera nos, Domine!
("Save us from the arrows of the Hungarians, O Lord!")
Hajra Turan
Magyar raids went deep into Italian territory -there are records of towns being attacked by the Magyars or Hungarians in the deep south of Italy.Later on in the early Twelfth Century, the Hungarian kingdom became involved in a war with the Venetians for control of the Croatian coastline area and the Hungarian armies invaded north east Italy but were defeated. Even later in theearly1400's Hungarian armies (Often composed of Croatians) became involved in the politics of the Kingdom of Naples as both Hungary and Naples were ruled by the originally French Angevin dynasty.When a Hungarian Angevin prince was killed by his Neapolitan Angevin wife queen Joanna of Naples -the Hungarians sent an army to southern Italy to avenge this prince.
A magyarok Arnulf szövetsègesei voltak. Vagy az is egy alkalommal.
nice work, I love this channel!
I absolutely love this channel! Great job in explaining history. Keep it up! Hopefully your subscribers grow. People should learn history. Thank you! 👍😁
How about the legend of Lehel's Horn? Could've been a nice story for the outro.
According to the legend, before being executed, Lehel's last wish was to blow his horn for a last time. He, however, smashed it into the emperor's head, killing him, and commenting that he'll only go to hell after him.
Though some chronicles mention the victim just as "the emperor", most sources describe Lehel killing "Emperor Conrad the red". Considering Duke Conrad the red died in the battle from an arrow, the legend makes sense this way.
Though this is just a legend, we still have Lehel's broken horn, kept as a relic in Jászberény. It's the symbol of the locality there, while the story is very popular and well-known in Hungary. That's why I'm surprised it didn't make it into the outro.
The problem with this legend is that Otto lived many more years and Conrad was only a duke. So it doesn't make much sense.
Well, chronicles are quite controversial, and by making sense I meant that Conrad also died in the battle, so the chronicles must've been referring to him.
Hm, the interesting part for me is that both leaders were executed on the spot. I know, I know, nomad leaders, pagans, raiding our lands 24/7, and so on, but surely Otto could've secured a large bounty for their freedom? There's a thing or two about having defeated enemies still in charge of their country/tribe/etc.
Was there any extensive list of their crimes or some sort of a personal grudge that led to this result? Or perhaps Magyars, specifically, were not too fond of buying back their failed chieftains?
Hungarian history is filled with legends.
Legend of Lehel's Horn as legend of Attila and Leo pope.
Thank you very much for this great video.
Only one observation.
Otto I. spreaded the German influence in every direction (Poland, Bohemia, Italy, Danemark, Western Francia, Burgundia), but he did not dared to attack Hungary, even after he defeated several times the Hungarian riders (938, 943, 951, 955). This shows that he was not very sure that he would have the same success on the Hungarian soil.
This was due to the fact that in the decades before the battle of Lechfeld, the Hungarians defeated the Germans very heavily for several times. In 908 they defeated at Eisenach the Thuringian and Saxon troops, killing their leaders (Burchard, Duke of Thuringia, Egino, Duke of Thuringia, Rudolf I, Bishop of Würzburg), in 910 they defeated two East Frankish armies: king Loius the Child's army at Augsburg, and than the united armies of the dukes at Rednitz, killing, as usual, the majority of the soldiers with their military leaders (Duke Gozbert of Alemannia, Managolt, count of Alemannia, Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine, Liudger, Count of Ladengau), in 919 they defeated Otto's father, the former East Frankish king Henry the Fowler at Püchen, the king being very close to be killed.
But the heaviest German defeat was in 907 at Brezalauspurc (Bratislava or Pozsony in Hungarian), when the German army which attacked Hungary, was completely annihilated by the Hungarians in a 3 days battle, killing its leaders (Prince Luitpold, Margrave of Bavaria, Prince Sieghard, Archbishop Theotmar of Salzburg, 2 bishops, 3 abbots and 19 counts).
Otto probably was affraid that if he would attack Hungary, he would had meet the same fate.
So the Hungarians were not avoidinig the battles, as you say. Timothy Reuter in his book Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800-1056, writes that before the German victory of 933 at Merseburg, actually the European kings and dukes were affraid of engaging in battles with the Hungarians, being affraid to be killed. Indeed after 938, when the Hungarians suffered a heavy defeat by Otto in Saxony, they started to avoid Saxony in their raids, but they engaged the German troops often until the battle of Lech (939, 943, 951).
Some major Hungarian victories of that time were:
Battle of Brenta 899, Battle of Pressburg 907, Battle of Eisenach 908, the first Battle of Lechfeld in 910, first Battle of Augsburg 910, Battle of Rednitz 910, Battle of Püchen 920, etc
cute fantasy story szalard.
Gondolom a magyarok Lechfeld utàni hathatós bosszúja is közrejàtszhatott abban hogy Ottó nem mert megtàmadni bennünket.
best way to start a weekend, Baz Battles!
Your voice is amazing
I'm impressed of king Otto's commanding skills. A true German 👍
Valóban egy igazi német. Úgy is viselkedett.
ULM!!!!!!!!!!!
too op
Well researched and nicely presented - thank you and best regards from Augsburg :)
Sweet! Another great video, thank you
Egészségére! Xdd ez jó!
Having flashbacks of Medieval 2 Total War now.
Yeah they were.
I love this channel so much keep up the good work
Good film
Lengyel, Magyar ;)
And maybe Battle of Vienna/Warsaw (1920)/some American Civil War battles, please :)
Gott mit uns!
Wow this video is good. Such a great setup and multiple levels of battle view! Grand strategy, strategy, then tactical. 👌
Great video as always!
Can you do Battle of Mohacs?
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subtitled
Other great Turkish-Hungarian battle: the battle of Belgrade 1456th-cam.com/video/duCOtlAPBVw/w-d-xo.html:
Azt hiszem már van videó a mohácsi csatáról is, keresd a youtubon.