Stopping the Ottoman Advance: The (Staggering) Siege of Belgrade 1456

In 1453 the ever-expanding Ottoman Empire breached the gate to Europe: Constantinople was captured. And soon Sultan Mehmed II, known as the Conqueror, renewed his offensive efforts. On the 4th of July 1456 he arrived at the Hungarian border fortress of Belgrade with an army of about 40’000 men and 200 ships. This marked the beginning of a siege characterized by an unusual crusader army, a trap failing to spring, and a towering fortress. The siege of Belgrade or in Hungarian Nándorfehérvár ended on July 22, a day now celebrated as a national Memorial Day in Hungary. This is how contemporary historiography tells the story of the staggering siege of Belgrade. Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/sandrhomanhistory Paypal (thank you): https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/SandRhomanhistory Twitter: https://twitter.com/Sandrhoman Chapters: 00:00-00:56 Intro 00:56-02:04 Ground News 02:04-07:57 Chapter 1: Where Do They Go? 07:57-11:40 Chapter 2: A Firm Grip 11:40-14:29 Chapter 3: The Battle on the Danube 14:29-16:42 Chapter 4: It's a Trap! 16:42-19:50 Chapter 5: A Trap Fails to Spring Literature: Ayton, A.; Price, L., The Medieval Military Revolution: State, Society and Military Change in Medieval and Early Modern Society, London 1998. Nisbet, Bain, R., The Siege of Belgrade by Muhammad II, July 1-23, 1456, in: The English Historical Review, 7/26 (1892). Pálosfalvi, T., From Nicopolis to Mohács. A History of Ottoman-Hungarian Warfare, 1389–1526, 2018. Setton, K. M., The Papacy and the Levant (1204–1571), Volume III: The Sixteenth Century to the Reign of Julius III. Philadelphia 1984. Shaw, S. J., History of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey, Volume 1, Empire of the Gazis: The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire 1280–1808, 1976.