Battle of Dorylaeum 1097 - First Crusade - Medieval History DOCUMENTARY
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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on the First Crusade continues with the aftermath of the battle of Civetot of 1096 ( • People's Crusade: Batt... ) during the so-called People's Crusade of the First Crusade and the battle of Nicaea of 1097 ( • Princes' Crusade Begin... ) as the Princes' Crusade began. The Crusaders continued moving into the Asia Minor and had to fight against the forces of the Seljuk Sultan of Rum Kilij Arslan in Dorylaeum.
Previous videos on the Crusades, Bulgaria, and the Byzantine Empire:
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Battle of Kalavrye 1078 - • First Crusade - Rise o...
Creation of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum - • First Crusade: Partiti...
Pope Urban II's call for Crusade - • How Pope Urban II Spar...
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Battle of Nicaea 1097 - • Princes' Crusade Begin...
Rise of Bulgaria - Battle of Tryavna 1190 - • Rise of Bulgaria - Eve...
Sack of Constantinople 1204 - • Sack of Constantinople...
Battle of Adrianople 1205 - • Battle of Adrianople 1...
Battle of Klokotnitsa 1230 - • Battle of Klokotnitsa ...
How the Romans Retook Constantinople - Pelagonia 1259: • How the Romans Retook ...
What Was Lost in the Sack of Constantinople - • What Was Lost in the S...
Varangians - Elite Bodyguards of the Byzantine Emperors - • Varangians - Elite Bod...
Siege of Damascus 634 - Arab - Byzantine Wars - • Siege of Damascus 634 ...
Byzantine Empire Strikes Back - Battle of Nikiou 646 - • Byzantine Empire Strik...
Siege of Constantinople 717-718 - Arab-Byzantine Wars - • Siege of Constantinopl...
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I am exited for the next Part
The suljuk army never got to rule the region of bahrain so why did you add the Bahrain region which include Kuwait eastern province of saudi arabia and the present day Bahrain into the Saljuk rule. The state that used to rule Bahrain was the uyunids and not the Saljuks.
So may you please correct this mistake in the videos after this.
@@Sajsh-j2e He is saying right, and If He is wrong then wait until the last Video about this crusade and then say your opinion in this theme
@@pontic.chalyb And why should I wait until the last video about the crusade? What's going to happen?
They imagined themselves as Roman legionnaires, that they ended up in a trap and beset by hit-and-run horse riders again. Truly the Roman legionnaire experience.
Carrhae#2, but better.
Your in every comment section of history channels like you were everywhere in europe Napoleon lmao
Hahahahaha 😂
@@justinlabrosse8506 Except Britain, yes he was
Better than romans
I think during this series so far, while it's going to be the first crusade I am really admiring the role Alexios Komenos is playing for the Byzantines. I honestly did not think highly of him before but now I am quite impressed at the way he is politically savy and shrewd in trying to get new lands while appeasing as many as he could.
Learning more about history is just realizing how much the Byzantines are histories protagonists
I think it’s also very fascinating that he never forgot how big a threat the Normans were (Bohemund especially)
@@AlbertoSantosDumont819 While they weren't busy blinding and castrating each other.
Indeed alexios was the best emperor that the empire had seen since basil the second reign some 50 years before when he took the throne he faced many rebellions invasions from the pechengs which defeated at levounion and the Normans which at the start had great success but the defeat at Larisa and the diplomatic prowess of alexios force them to abandon this invasion and all that time he faced the Seljuks from the east
@@AlbertoSantosDumont819 yet many people know only manzikert Fourth crusader and the siege of 1453 but fortunately through these videos many people start to learn more for the empire that lasted more than 1000 years
Honestly both sides fought extremely well here. And the Crusaders showed their toughness by not breaking under the onslaught.
Alexios consistently come off as the most clever man in all of this.
Well, he was a sneaky Greek,what do you expect?
And always bounced back. That takes skill.
@@MbisonBalrog It means he learned from his failures.
At the cost of emptying the treasury.
@@rb3872
But kept his kingdom
Excellent video! Alexios Komnenos had to deal with a state in the brink of the absolute destruction, with enemies attacking from evrywhere, when he came to power, and then with patience, wise strategy, and incredible diplomacy, succeded not only to save the Eastern Roman Empire but also restoring many lost terriories. And 19 years after Dorylaeum, Alexios, even if he was now old and with problems with his health (suffering by arthritis), he will soundly defeat the Seljuks in the Battle of Philomelion in 1116 AD, by using the battle formation known as "parataxis" similar to the one that Xenophon used in antiquity, during the March of the 10.000. One of the greatest emperors!
I love this show. The commentator, the art work it's just fabulous and so informative. You guys are great, thank you all.
Reading a novel on the Middle Ages and the crusades has always been the most interesting part in my opinion. Glad y’all are covering these battles especially those of the first crusade.
What novel
@@JackPulaMan Powers and Thrones by Dan Jones and The Crusades by him as well.
@@mattstakeontheancients7594 I have his book titled, Crusaders and it's great! It's helped me well in my research for a historical fiction book I'm writing. (along with this video!) I'll have to check out the ones you mentioned as well!
The First Crusade is a fascinating time period for Historians to read about. I'm often impressed with the tenacity showed by both sides of this conflict. My complements to all those who made this video a reality.
Amazing how these knights managed to hold their ground through the arrow rain and not charge out impetuously.
@@CETGale yes, French Knights were like " Leeeeroooy Jeeeeenkiiiinnss ! "
What’s so amazing? they fully heavily armoured knights against lightly armour archer horseman? Logically they ain’t going to catch up to a feinting horse archer
@@Vdanman well try to explain this to medieval french lol
@@Vdanman there are so many cases of heavy cavalry trying a full charge on horse archers, and being amazed when they cant catch them or run inti an ambush
@@Vdanman Logic never mattered to French cavalry, in case you haven't been paying attention.
Excellent video yet again!!! Personally I am huge fan of eastern Roman and Greek history and would love to see more videos about them!!
7 hours ago? What?
"Personally I am huge fan of eastern Roman and Greek history" the Ottoman part as well? :3
@@alvirarahman1559 yes I've seen the ottoman series!!
It’s never a boring morning when you have two videos released from Kings and Generals
Love that the crusades videos are expanded so much as you guys visit them again
"άρχεσθαι μαθών άρχειν επιστήσει" = if you wish to dominate, you must strive to serve. A great quote by the Athenian Solon.
This was amazing. I Think this the potential to be best series on the 1st Crusade.
The Komnenian dynasty also has a long list of significant battles that changed the power balance of the East and West of Constaninople such as the battles of Levunion, Philomelion, Beroia, Haram, Sirmium, the Byzantine-Hungarian wars during John the 2nds reign and the second crusade etc etc
Well said for me the komnenoi was the last dynasty which made the empire a power house
Can you please make a documentary about Vikings campaigns around the world? You did mention the Vikings sporadically to other main topics (i.e. history of Russ, history of Britain, etc) but not a dedicated video of all their global campaigns, their motives, their ethos and how expeditions changed the world forever.
Great video. I am loving this series. Huge respect for the wisdom of Alexios.
As always a good video with a very interesting topic...... the fact that you try to cover as many things as possible is very good ..... knowledge is important to not forget who we are . The way you are describing each subject is just incredible you have a real gift !! Anyway love your vidéos keep Going on
The Anatolian Seljuk Sultan Kılıçarslan I should be admired for his bravery, he was only 17 years old at this battle. His Sultanate was only 10 years old and yet he was trying to defend his newly built sultanate from this unexpected invasion and he managed that too. Although this battle did not prevent crusaders from reaching Jerusalem, they left Anatolia in a quick pace and the Anatolia he defended has become Turkey today thanks to Kılıçarslan I and his successors' efforts.
that's life that the story of Anatolia........from pagan to Christian....to Muslims ...and to.... what next...?
@@horationelson5255 atheist
@@Hugh_Morris God I hope not
@@Hugh_Morris Lol it is still a muslim majority region
@William Robert someone asked what would come after Islam. Logic would say atheism as it is rising much faster than any religion, worldwide
I liked watching this again but am still patiently waiting for the concluding episodes of the First Crusade, Thanks!
Excellent video again, K and G. This channel's content is probably one of the best on YT. I know trolls say that the content is tilted towards the West, but depending on your demographics, I think your topics are outstanding. Thanks again. Cheers.
After being defeated at Dorylaeum, the Seljuks had their revenge 50 years later at the exact same location during the Second Crusade.
Melikshah son of Kılıjarslan, moreover, he defeated 2 great European Kings
Also Kılıjarslan defeated 3 Cruseder army at 1101
Spoilers! I’m covering my eyes
@@CETGale The seljuk sultan, Kilij Arslan II, Gave free passage to Frederick as he had beef with the ayyubids in the south. The seljuk princes however were not happy with that choise and attacked the crusader army with their own irreglur forces. After their defeat, they came back to detrone their father but he was already gone.That's why the crusader army was atacked despite the sultans promise.
@@CETGale Barbarossa defeated seljuk prince and took capital, did not conquer any seljuk state, seljuk empire was gone before the first crusade due to the civil war and rum sultanate did not have enough turkic population to resist the crusader armies although they had higher win rate and the crusaders chose more costly sea route
I have been waiting for this!
I have never seen a detailed first crusade like on this channel. I will learn from your series and produce the first crusade on my channel. Dear kings and generals fans, help a small youtube channel that is just making its way I appreciate that ❤️
I suggest that you check Extra History channel, they also have a series on the First Crusade and the Third.
real crusades history is the best on this topic with a slight right wing touch. extra history is too generic and brief and left leaning
Just a clarification, in 15:52 it is correctly said that the "Seljuks was a minority in every city in Anatolia". The Seljuks were the military occupants of this area and had a near-zero non-military Seljuk population in this. The population, especially in Western, and coastal Asia Minor, was predominantly Greek.
Also a clarification; at the time, the Greeks called themselves Roman, and had a Roman civic identity. Famously put by Anna Komnena, Greek was their language, Christianity was the religion, and they were Roman as a genos (alongside the other minorities in the Empire like Bulgars, Slavs, Armenians, Jews and etc). So they in their own minds considered themselves the heirs of the Romans and the Greeks. (For instance, see Romanland: Ethnicity and Empire in Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis).
@@alexioskomnenos5290 Also "Roman" during the byzantine period became a Greek ethnonym and was used as another word for Greek (together with Graikos and Hellen) something that we can see both in the byzantine lexica and in the byzantine sources where the words Greeks and Romans are used interchangeably as synonyms. In other words the term "Roman" had multiple definitions during the byzantine period and could mean : 1)someone with Roman citizenship regardless of ethnicity 2)the ethnically Greek 3)Latin roman/ancient Roman 4)follower of the Roman church.
Byzantines considered themselves descendants of the ancient Greeks (not the Latin Romans) and political heirs of the Roman state. As Joseph I Galesiotes said: They were Greeks in genos that called themselves Romans because of New Rome (Constantinople) ("Έλληνες όντες τω γένει, ρωμαίους εαυτούς ονομάζομεν, και αληθώς γε μην· εκ γαρ της Νέας Ρώμης η παρωνυμία αύτη προσκεκλήρωται ημίν" "Έλληνες όντες). As for Romanland, it's a book that support some pretty extreme theories that have been rejected by the majority of historians.
First of all not byzantine it was eastern Roman Empire. Second they werent seljuk but in a period of 60 80 years nearly all of anatolia started to speak turkish.
I love your content! Thank you all for your work into these little known historical battles!
Whoever made the soundtrack for this video deserves a raise from this channel.
These videos on the crusades are my favourite :)
Robert: **sits on Alexios’s throne**
Alexios: Aww, that’s adorable. Get this guy a drink, on me!
Fantastic !! Congratulations and thanks for one more episode!
It's awesome to see the channel grow and content expand!
Great videos as always
Thanks again for the videos ⚔️
What if the bear had killed him:
"Oh my dear lady, you husband has been slayen during the crusade!"
"Which foul heathen saracen has robbed me of my husband!?!"
"A bear my lady."
"A what?"
This is the very first time that I have ever heard that Tancred was made to swear the oath to Alexios after leaving Constantinople.
Wow! I can't believe we're finally here, been waiting for a long time! I haven't even watched the video yet (I have to take my Caesar for a walk) but I hope the continuation all the way to Jerusalem and beyond will be as great as I'm sure this one is! Please do some if not all of the other major battles during the crusades including The Field of Blood, Battle of Montgisard, Jacobs Ford, etc.......
History Marche has excellent video on Filed of Blood
The victory of Byzantine strategy and crusader force. What a ruler Alexios was …
Bohémond I of Antioch, what a fucking top tier quality military leader man
Fantastic video keep it up your doing amazing job
I love your videos. Please more
this narrator is brilliant
Thanks!
Can't wait for the next episode
Well Documented And Narrated
I love this channel so much!
Amazing episode
Excellent video!
Great video as always. I think you are definitely the most accurate on youtube at bringing content on historical topics and I personally look forward to each of your videos. I wanted to ask one thing though. Seeing your previous video on the origins of Indo-European languages where you say that there is a possibility to get audio in other languages besides English, I was wondering how exactly the system works. It would be much easier for me to enjoy videos like this one on the crusades by listening to it in Italian.
Thank you kings and generals 🙏🏻
As Orthodox Christian i cried on 14:43 ,it was indeed a miracle from our true living God and Saints.
What the fuck
idk about you guys, but Alexios I really made an impression on me. wow. he took the throne of a bankrupt empire, ridden by revolts and a norman invasion in the west, and the East totally lost to the turks. yet somehow managed to rebuild the economy enough to make such gifts to the crusaders that amazed them. HOW???
He made sure cities were aware of the crusading army passing through and ready to resupply it. the crusaders again were impressed, probably for them this was a logistical nightmare, but they clearly forgot that they were dealing with romans here, they practically perfected logistics centuries ago. and even after that little shit mocked him by sitting on his throne, an offense anyone else would have hanged him for, Alexios proved to be the better man, inviting the fool for a drink and advising him on the enemy tactics.
Lastly, he managed to repel the normans, cumans, pechenegs, turks... with no shortage of military skill. sure, he was no Caesar, but damn... no man was more worthy of being called Emperor of romans in those days.
For EU4 players, i honestly see his stats as 5/6/4. what say you?
well done - we wait you to cover the period 1180 - 1204
These videos are so informative and interesting. I could binge watch your channel all day sometimes.
Most conflicts seem to be caused by pride, in addition to resources, race, and religion. Dude is part of the christian crusade and wants a tent as lavish as the Emperors. WTF dude? You just cant help unless you look just as fancy? So it's not really religion then?
Not really for the higher levels of society, especially a lot of the knights involved. Europe was coming into a period where there wasn't really much land avaible anymore, so second or third sons were not really getting much once their fathers died. Many of those involved hoped that by claiming the Holy Land there would be a chance for them to get land, and therefore, income. Religion was a much larger catalyst for the common folk, for them it was a very big reason to join, among the lust for travel, adventure and other things everyone of us also feels.
Not to say religion was no reason whatsoever for the knights and high society, but there were also very practical reasons for them to go, and wealth and prestige were certainly among the primary ones.
ofc its not just religion. dude was tryna get something by force which the emperor simply inherited :) its always winner takes all lol
I love these vids, always inspire me for another run of EU3, CK2 or otherwise.
Damn, you still play eu3? Now that's old, even older than ck2
Hi guys, tremendous video as usual.
I wanted to know about the sources you used to create it.
I currently writing an historical fiction about the 1st crusade and I haven't been able to find a source which describe the terrain as well as you video.
So far, nothing I read talks about the valleys.
Thank you very much.
What a great series!
Oh Alexios, you was one of the good ones!
One might say the Turkic response to this was Dorylaed...
Hey @KingsandGenerals i want to look into this battle further. Can you cite some of the sources you used for this video? Thanks!
I am from Dorleum and It has always bothered me that this war was so little known out there. I would like to add Turkish subtitles to this video, I wonder how we can do this
Dorleum su an neresi
@@muratsa100 Eskişehir
Love The vid
I want this series to continue all the way to the battle of ascalon
I would love to know what engine/game that you guys use for the battle shots. Looks a lot like Atilla total war 1212 AD mod
Bohemond and Endel sound like a great combination. Surely it would have helped him relax LOL
I hope you don't stop after the first crusade, or the first three, but cover all of them , as they are very underrepresented
Excelente!
So what I've learned so far about the Crusades from this channel over the years, is that is basically Christian Europeans versus the Muslim Arabs, Pagan Slavs, and Nestorian Greeks.
Actually most of the Nestorians were not Greeks.
@@Kimmerios-l5u isn't that what Catholic Crusaders referred the Greeks as?
The crusaders called the Greeks and all the orthodox nations,schismatics.
Another great video. This period is very well connected to the modern day geo politics. Would you make a video about 1922 Turkish offensive as it the conditions seem similar
Wow. History Rock's cause you!!!
Yay! Love the battles of antiquity!
Hello again, around two years ago i asked under your Video "Battle of Lepanto 1571" whether you could share the name of the program you used in the process of making the video. I noticed that the artstyle of the map you were using at the time remained pretty much the same in the last two years. I was wondering if you could also share the name of the different after effect templates you are using. Im especially interested in the "world map" you are using in this video and the template you are using for the "zoomed-in battle depictions". It would be great if you could help me with this. Thank you in advance.
After Effects. No templates.
@@KingsandGenerals Oh so the basic program is enough to create those maps in the background and change the borders and colours of countries freely while moving "chips" with the heads of the important rulers from point A to point B. Is that true? Also thank you for your fast response. Keep up the good work!
@@philipp6709 I wouldn't think the maps themselves (with all the terrain and what not) are made with after effects. The maps are surely made with other programs like photoshop/illustrator.
@@xergiok2322 thats exactly what i was wondering. But due to the response i was like " maybe there is a feature in after effects that lets you create maps ". But you are probably right. Does anyone know for certain tho?
Weirdly this battle seems similar to the Battle at Helms Deep in LOTR. Pinned down, surrounded, and saved by cavalry from the flank...
a comment of appreciation for the youtube algorithm!
If possible make a video on tripartite struggle around kannauj between gurjara-pratihara pala and rashtrakutas
Well done
You have to give it to Norman's for their courage and tenacity in combat. 5 HOURS in heavy armors, under constant arrow fire and still didn't break under pressure.
They weren't hired as mercenaries for nothing after all.
Really interesting to See these Events on the Western source Perspective. Some parts are really Different
What will be your next video on the Italian Wars series
Alexius, is really getting the best of both worlds in regards to the crusaders crushing and beating the Seljuks Turks. Allowing for his forces rapid reconquest of Anatolia and then getting said conquest recognised by truce/treaty with Seljuk’s. While continued March of the crusaders provided opportunity for further reconquest and weakening of enemy powers.
I live in a road called Dorylaioy named after Dorylaeum, since the Greeks were forced out of Anatolia in 1922, in the city of Modern Nikaia in Athens after Nicaea. Sad if you think how many years Greeks lived in those cities and now barely any do. However my great grandparents were forced out of the important Byzantine village of Nymphaion near Smyrna, so much bloodshed and terror for the sake of westerners interest (British, French and Americans). Its been almost 100 years and Greek existence in Anatolia has been wiped out, unfortunately this part of history is not known.
Thats true. But most of the bloodshed was caused by the Turks at that time. Westerners will always have various agenda based on their interest, and if only Ghreek diplomats was able to pressure the West in giving Constantinople in the 1920s
@@majorianus8055 yeah that’s also true, another fact is that German banks created anti Greek propaganda in turkey and funded projects which ended up becoming labour battalions, some even say it was an experiment for the following concentration camps in the 40s
@@majorianus8055 all started because westerns wanted to use greeks for their own good in anatolia. Most of the anatolian greeks sided with the invading greek army so many turks lost their lives with their Villages, cities burned Down as well as 60-70.000 turks in greece 50 years prior to that. I personelly love greek inhabitants of these lands who are still here and am sorry what happened in 1922 but my point is nothing was one sided. It had two sides and the western imperials at the top of everything
Maybe all this happened after your tripolice massacre where 40.000 innocent turks murdered. Every action has results. Forget anatolia otherwise we will remember mora and rest of greece as our small province..
@@muratsa100 well I never said we didn’t do bad things too, however everything started in 1910 with the labour battalions this was the end between the peaceful share of lands in Anatolia. In war there is always bloodshed but ethnic cleaning of three indigenous people ( Greeks, Armenians, Kurds) that’s something else far worse than just war and unfortunately Turkey doesn’t recognise it. Imagine if Germany did not recognise the concentration camps. Greeks of Anatolia viewed Asia Minor as their homeland not the Greek modern state but you had to extinguish us because we held the wealth of Anatolia and all that because the Germans pushed you to do that.
1.5 million Armenians dead, 1 -1.5 dead million Greeks dead and another 1.5 million departed from their lands, thousands of dead Kurds and let’s not even get to the condition which they lived in while captured. Maybe you should read the book Farewell Anatolia it shows the view of an Anatolian Greek at the start you will think it is one sided but as it goes on it shows the bad of both sides and what war can do to a man.
Excellent video 📹
The Byzantines objectives were net.
They got their lands back.
Whats the music thats being played at 13:24
The First Wave by Jon Björk
@@esportsprodigybuhanil933 , thank you!
@@esportsprodigybuhanil933 ty
Make about The battle of Tsarytsin pls!!
awesome
Hey, was that the Crusader Kings soundtrack?
Wanderfull sir !!!!!! But i want the battle of phillomilion in 1116 AD
Interesting. I didn't know there was a city name Philadelphia in Anatolia. I wonder if this is where the city of Philadelphia (or Philly) in Pennsylvania came from?
Yes. In fact, there were a number of cities named Philadelphia during the Greek and Roman Periods. It was chosen because it means “Brotherly Love” in Ancient Greek, and Penn, the founder, wanted the city to be a place where everybody could worship freely.
It's a Greek name
The philadelphia in anatolia was the last roman settlement in anatolia that was loyal to constantionple to fall to the turks as well, in the late 1380s.
No, that Philadelphia is the city of Amman today. some of its roman greco ruines have suvrivied espacillay the big theater.
@@starcapture3040 I believe its called alasehir now not amman
You are wrong when gou said Seljuks had numerical advantage.
Seljuks had 6-8000 men. Crusaders had 50.000 men even though only 20.000 were present but the rest caught up towards the end of battle.
You are right that crusaders lost 4000 while Seljuks lost 3000 men.
Anyway Kilijarslan avenges this in Crusade of 1101 when he defeats 3 crusader armies in a row. That crusade is mever popular in pop culture though. His son Mesut I also defeats German Emperor in 1147 and Frankish king in 1148 in second crusade.
no the crusade had 60 000 men
No It's not wrong. The nomad turks had 8,000 horse archers. The crusaders and the Romans had approximately 3,000 cavalry and 6000-8000 infantry. Yes the total main force was 50000-60000 men but very few engaged on the battlefield apart from the vanguard because of the slow march and their baggage train
@@lucabarbanti8211
Crusader army in total was 50.000-60.000 men. We have no dispute in that.
However, it was 20.000 who engaged with 6-8.000 Seljuk army.
That 20.000 raised their shields and resisted to Seljuk attack until the rest of the 30.000 came to their aid.
So Seljuks fled when they saw rest of the army caught up. So it is untrue to say rest of the army had no role.
If this was a battle between those 20.000 and 6-8.000 Seljuks with no interference, Seljuks were winning.
They lost because rest of the army caught up.
At the end of the day Seljuks had 3000 losses while crusaders had 4000 losses.
@@arda213 Ehm no. Your're wrong again it's less than 20000. Today for the experts it seems reasonable that Bohemond had with him approximately 2,000 cavalry and 8,000 foot soldiers(not counting a large number of noncombatants who fetched water for the men in the camp. They were with Bohemond yes but I don't count them as soldiers).Just after midday, Godfrey arrived with a force of 50 knights, fighting through the Turkish lines to reinforce Bohemond. Through the day small groups of reinforcements (also from Raymond, and Hugh, as well as Godfrey) arrived, some killed by the Turks, others fighting to reach Bohemond's camp Although the ferocity of the Crusader attack took the Turks by surprise, they were unable to dislodge the Turks until a force led by bishop Adhemar of Le Puy, the papal legate, arrived in mid-afternoon, perhaps with Raymond in the van, moving around the battle through concealing hills and across the river, outflanking the archers on the left and surprising the Turks from the rear with 2000 men. Adhemar's force fell on the Turkish camp, and attacked the Turks from the rear. The Turks were terrified by the sight of their camp in flames, and by the ferocity and endurance of the knights, since the knights' armour protected them from arrows( the nomad turks called them" men of iron"). To sum up 2000-3000 cavalry+ 8000-10000 infantry engaged.
@@lucabarbanti8211
This entire text looks like crusader bias. "Turks were terrified at the sight" "ferocity of the attack took Turks by suprise" "Turks were shocked"
Who confirms these ? Turkish sources ? I highly doubt Turks would mention the events in this way. So at best there is a unilateral claim which is equal to zero in terms of trustworthyness. I have read the Osprey book on first crusade. To my knowledge crusader army had way less maneuvrability and 6-8000 Seljuks attacked the enemy army part that was at front with 20.000 men. Appearently Seljuks who recently defeated peoples crusade with ease didnt expect much endurance so the lagging part caught up which made Seljuks retreat.
this was definitely different than the old epic history tv depiction
I have my Samsung tv set to the Magellan channel and was super stoked when I saw your videos on it! "He did it! The SOB pulled it off!" Lmao 🤣
Did Kilij Arslan use archers who sat and used their feet on their bows? Or was that made up for a documentary about the crusades I watched years ago?
May you make a video on Vedic Age or Harappan Civilisation
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Hello. I really admire your channel, but please create a new series on all the important events and battles of the US Civil War and the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783).
Pretty good. I hope the next part spends some time on the role the Armenians played in Tancreds Tarsus campaign and Baldwins Edessa adventure. Without them, there would never have been a county of Edessa. Also, I have never understood why animations on the first crusade often include the Jerusalem cross when it didn't exist. Too hard to edit out? Seriously asking, I have no idea.
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1:55 I really don't think you should mention the "people's crusade" without mentioning that it was not in fact made up of normal people.
The people's crusade was made up of peasants, the Prince's crusade was made up of Nobles hence the name
@@juancarlosdegoya2757 No. the wrongly named people's crusade was also made up of nobles.
@@MrTohawk The prince's crusade also had peasants, the difference is that the Peasants crusade was mainly composed of peasant and the Prince's crusade mainly of Nobles
@@juancarlosdegoya2757 That's the old view. Historians nowadays are of the opinion that it's just an explanation of why it failed so miserably. The church needed one.
@@MrTohawk I would like for substantial evidence of those claims, names of those historians would be a good start
Damm we almost lost Anatolia after this battle. Too much effort to must be given for gain back the lost lands. Same vibe like the Turkish war of the independence.
Nice content btw keep it up.
i am still wondering how it is possible to win a battle against the javelin cavalry. Going testudo formation only test your stregnth and the discipline of your army. Going in an open battle they gonna apply hit and run tactics. stay inside a castle or a forte and they gonna burn the countryside and let you starve to death.
The only way i can think is forming a strong line of defence with infantry and testuto tactics and hide your cavalry . light cavalry on the one side to charge and withdraw and your heavey calavlry hidden and charging behind them
Hold the line!!!!!!!
We are definitely seeing peak "Byzantineness" in this series.
You misspelled Romanness.