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John Hunyadi: The Making of an Ottoman Adversary (opens the original)
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In July 1456, the army of Mehmed II failed before Belgrade. Three years earlier, the Ottoman sultan had captured Constantinople and extinguished the Byzantine Empire. Now a fortress on Hungary’s southern frontier had resisted him, and the forces gathered around John Hunyadi had helped drive his army away. Yet Hunyadi lived for less than three weeks after the victory. He died on August 11th, during the epidemic that followed the fighting.This ending has understandably shaped the story of his life
The Battle of Nancy: The Collapse of Ambition (opens the original)
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By the first week of January 1477, the Burgundian camp outside Nancy had been living in the cold for months. Charles the Bold had returned to the city in October, determined to retake what René II of Lorraine had seized from him earlier that year, and the siege had dragged on through a Lorraine winter severe enough that men froze standing in their own positions. Tents iced over at night. Horses grew gaunt on rationed forage, and the roads leading back toward Burgundian territory grew harder to k
ROBERT DE BRAQUEMONT: The Norman Unifier (opens the original)
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Born in the 1350s into the minor nobility of the Pays de Caux region, near Dieppe in Normandy, Robert de Braquemont belonged to a family with three brothers who took their name from the parish of Braquemont; their modest fortune was built upon the traditional military service of the Norman nobility of the sword, a path they all followed for the Kingdom of France. In his youth, he served under Admiral Jean de Vienne and later alongside the companions of the great French commander Bertrand du Gues
What’s Next for This Newsletter (opens the original)
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Firstly, I have an essay on the battle of Nancy that I'm excited to share with you all this week, stay tuned for that!For over a year now I’ve written essays on medieval history for an audience that’s grown past 12,000 readers. I want to talk today about what comes next, because the next phase of this project needs a paid tier to exist at all.I want to start producing armor and weapons reviews and overviews, real hands-on breakdowns of how medieval arms and armor actually worked. How a poleaxe w
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