Battle of Ankara, 1402 - Clash of the two biggest conquerors of their time - Bayezid vs Timur 

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That was a really epic battle thx you

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That was an Extraordinary and outstanding video. Very very VERY WELL DONE SIR!

yeah no blatant blunder by any of the two parties on the battlefield

This was as suspenseful as any good novel or movie. The history reported was profound. Keep thinking about Crimea and Balkans as to the current wars. One of HM's best. Brilliant.

@@13redlion13 what could have beyazid done to win? a fighting retreat?

Yeah, this was a cracker. A battle fought well by both sides, intelligently committed reserves and, as you say great intelligence and depth of thought and action.

@@13redlion13 I think there were a few mistakes, but the most notable strategic mistakes were made by Bayezid. Fighting a large army of horse archers on the defensive while in an open field is a mistake, even if it is possible to push them back with heavy cavalry or a larger numbers of archers. This is due to the attrition suffered over time and the difficulty in fighting back. Your goal should always be to funnel them or lay a trap. Burning grazing areas, which could be possible in the Anatolian climate, ahead of a cavalry heavy army is also a good strategy to force the horses to starve. Bayezid set himself into a more difficult position than he had to when he faced the Timurids in the open. It may sound cruel, but it could be that letting Ankra burn would be the right choice in buying time for a better position. Still, the leadership Bayezid showed while under pressure from traitors and superior numbers is really admirable. He also had chosen some really loyal men to lead in his army, like the Serbians, and despite the treason. Timur was the greater commander in the end, even if there were some less notable mistakes made by him too. Like not taking advantage of the advancing Serbs, not killing the enemy archers and not splitting his horse archers into teams to provide constant fire. So neither commanders were perfect, but they were quite good for that time as they likely didn't have access to as much literature as we have. Finally they were both quite lucky, which is the most important trait of a commander.

Feels eerily similar to the Battle of Keresztes where, in that instance, in 1596, the Sultan stayed to fight the Christian army while his Ottoman army was falling apart, and miraculously, the Christian's hastiness doomed them to where the Ottomans managed to pull a win after 3 days of bloody back & forth fighting.

@@SolidAvenger1290 the ottomans were mad ngl, peak islamic empire

@@adamelghalmi9771 Europeans still be talking mad shit about The Ottomans tho. Etc: using kidnapping for janiserries and killing christians.

@@anormalpotato2887 i mean the janissary thing was a bit rude ngl, but the soldier tax is custom for all bayeliks in the empire

remember, back in the ancient/medieval world. most ordinary soldiers from Europe and middle east would have never even seen an elephant before. Must have almost looked like a giant supernatural beast charging at them lol. So yea, that takes an insane amount of courage, to stand and face an animal like that.

The Ottomans had a tradition of not retreating at the enemy charge - as it was considered unmanly... same happened at Lepanto when the Ottoman admiral was informed that the Christian alliance had gathered a huge fleet much bigger than his. He decided to carry on rather than retreat as he didnt want to seem cowardly. In hindsight, he should have run away to fight another day!

@@ks-qu4kj Pride always leads to idiotic things. Easy for the Leaders because they don't have to deal with the brunt of it.

@@ks-qu4kj lmao the Ottomans did run even with superior numbers, tell that to the winged hussars.

@@dazlian3432 they were the cleanup crew after austrian and polish infantry fought the ottomans for 2 days.

Stefan was one of the most chivalrous people in medieval history, and a true representation of what an knight honor was. But also his sister was married to Bayezid so his loyalty in this battle lays with her. After this battle she was captured by Timur and Stefan made deals to bring her back to Serbian court.

He was also member of dragon order of knights, maybe pinacle of knighthood of medieval Balkans time

@@plazmica0323 Stefan was also the second knight that entered the order, first one being the founder...

​@@plazmica0323 thank you for mentioning the dragon order of knights, another fascinating bit of history. It's amazing to see how a few hundred medieval tanks were able to defeat armies that outnumbered them dramatically. just imagine being 1 of a hundred knights looking at whole army and thinking "lets just charge and get this over with" and then doing just that. the use of technology and superior forces back then was a prelude to the technological superiority that the west enjoys in the modern era. brains over braun but having both is a better formula. i can see why underdeveloped countries cling to any dictator that feeds them historical revisionism that cover up such disappointing history. it's bad, not sure who is worse, the woke african revisionist thinking Mansa musa had the naval technology to discover america, Turks and chinese even try to claim initial contact with america as insane as that is, though none were advanced enough to write anything down is almost as laughable or the indian nationalist who despite spending much time trying to prove the "out of India" theory that non jokingly pretends that all humanity comes from India and is the reverse all provable history, all to cover up the fact Sanskri came from outside india and the even more embarrassing implications this has on nationalistic pride.

Timur was a ruthless conqueror and the ottomans and their allies put up a dogged fight but unfortunately all those betrayals were too much.

I wonder how this would have went if the Ottomans had an additional 30k troops to even out the numbers.

@@aksmex2576 there might have been a very real chance at victory then. If the Ottomans brought more household troops and Rumelian timars they could defend against the horse archers more easily, deal with the traitorous elements without the front line breaking and close the gap created by the charge of the elephants. Beyazid might have even been able to just push the horse archers and Timur's army against the mountains negating the horse archers effectiveness and forcing timur to use the Elephants earlier than he would like. This is all speculation though Timur still could've won he was great commander. Too bad such talent was wasted on such a brutal warlord. I would like to think that the Ottoman army would've won. I just like Beyazid better, he's like an earlier version of Yavuz Selim, just more pridefull.

@@kadudeduder5103do you think the ottomans would have had conquered constantinople earlier with beyazid? do you think the they could have conquered more territories perhaps?

@@imtiazabdurrahman683 The defeat at Anakara had huge consequences. For most empires it would've been the end but the Ottomans spent the next 50 years reconquering and subjugating it's lost territories, rebuilding it's armies for Mehmed the Conqueror to capture Istanbul. Constantinople could've been conquered earlier yes. The Ottomans were starving the city by blockading it for a few years before Timur invaded. John VII the current regent even considered surrendering to end the suffering of his people like the video explained. The Ottoman empire doesn't need to spend any time consolidating any power or fighting a bloody civil war if the defeat of Ankara doesn't happen. There's no need to reconquer the beyliks or the lost land in northeren Greece and Serbia. The traitorous troops and beys probably would've been put to death consequently. Beyazid's successors were all capable generals and administrators. Mehmed Celebi, Murad II and Fatih Mehmed could've probably conquered Hungary much earlier since it was still in disarray after its defeat of Nicopolis or even conquer Rome and Italy next with no Skanderbeg or Hunyadi standing in the way. This is all just fantasy, a big if scenario though maybe the ottomans would've gotten content entered stagnation further. I believe otherwise because the earlier Sultans and administrators were much more interested in ruling in stead of living lavishly. Just compare Mehmed Celebi would is practically the savior and second founder of the empire to the son of Suleiman the Magnificent, Sari Selim a drunk buffoon.

@@kadudeduder5103 didn’t suleiman the magnificent kill his more ambitious son that wanted to explore the new world? do you think he could’ve expanded the empire slightly?

Or any other site.

Yeah I agree this was an excellent one, with good graphics

Agreed this was really enjoyable to watch and listen to.

@@pannobhasa agreed. It reminds me of HM's all-part series covering the battle of Keresztes in 1596 with the Ottomans. Both sides had overall good & competent leadership, had this colossal back-and-forth over the battlefield, and amid the chaos & brutality of war, ended on a high note that displayed the utter ferocity of how each side viewed the other. Very high causalities in total, and where the Sultan fought to the bitter end to inspire the army back. One successfully did it in Kesresztes but not in Ankara.

Bayezid isn't blind

@@SIUUUUUsman can u even fcking read my god i reading youre comment made me like humans a little less

Nic eone

@@SIUUUUUsman I didn't say blind. Told him that his eyesight was poor in one eye.

Idiotic.i know why u say that. It was from Timur's quotes to Bayezid when he was imprisoned. Timur said Bayezid, what an irony that Allah gave power to lame like me and blind like you. Here blind doesn't mean physical, it's about Bayezid over pride, how he threatened Timur by envoys.

Yeah, definitely worthy of a Sabaton song.

What you say is just an ottoman perspective of the battle. From Timurid perspective, it was just a regular commitment.

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​@@TerrorbelliDecuspacis-w5fwell said. 😂😂😂😂😂

Mad respect for refusing to flee and choosing to die on the battlefield. The death of a true warrior.

We had an agreement, we respect agreements..they were not some mercenaries, like albanians or others, they were serbian nobles and knights of huge integrity in all of Europe at the time, both moral and courage and education...

@@theriseofnikas There was personal loyalty that transcended all of that, they were family.

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​​@@theriseofnikas. Just to educate you Albanian who participate with Serbs they did run away but stood with Serbs fighting till the last one you can see them at right side of Serbians when Timur attack ottomans right flank side

​@@mariolacic5458laughs in Hungarian Horsestable

You got some toilet paper left on your nose

@@RayRayWasAGoodBoy shush

K&G are sellouts, propaganda mongers, ad whores and cia educated stooges. Here's hoping History Marche never turns out that way. This was a grand video, like their old ones.

That other channel became western propaganda and lost its point.

@@johngottikg6692 True

Which country is that? Tamerlane ruled a huge empire lol.

​@@djd770 Uzbekistan

Funny how that goes huh?.. As a Euro-descendant myself many celebrate Julies Caesar but he killed millions of Gauls (ancient French), Britons (ancient natives of Britain) and sought to eradicate the Druidic religion of the Britons in order to colonize their lands. On the other hand Vlad The Impaler is painted as a monster when he was just trying to defend Europe from the Ottomans and had to take extreme measures to do so. Strange creatures us humans are.

Ruthless and Harsh is like Euphemism for mass murderers ....Genghiz and Timur are like the medieval equivalent to the Austrian Painter or Stalin ....Butchered entire cities without consideration of age , or gender....but can't deny that they were extremely , probably one of the best masterminds in history of the warriorship...I bow to their martial skills

​@@EstbXCIIITbh ceasar wasnt really that bad in Britain. The romans didnt attempt to destroy the native British religions and honestly out of all roman invaders in Britain ceasar didnt really do much except ruitine war stuff he didnt conquer anything. Ceasar in gaul on the other hand is a different story 😂 its strange that so many people dont know that just during his time there gaul lost 1/3rd of its population. 1 million killed and another 1 million enslaved then ceasar by his own words slaughtered nearly half a million germans. The romans in general are just never remembered for their extreme brutality on the natives. The anceint britons apparently according to tacitus had a leader who said this to describe the romans "To robbery, slaughter, plunder, they give the lying name of empire; they make a solitude and call it peace". The romans debatabley are one of , if not the most brutal empires in European history and in my opinion are way worst than pretty much all colonial empires of the 1500-1990s but all those have bad reputations and the romans are loved. Strange isnt it.

It is not good for Turks to fight against other Turks their blood brothers. I hope modern Turks of Central Asia and Anatolia can make some conclusions from theirs forefathers mistakes.

​@@buritekin429 good thing Timur wasn't a Turk, he was a Barlas Mongol,Barlas tribe was related to Borijin mongol tribe of Genghis khan, and Timur boasted about that

@@BarlasofIndus Dulat Mangit Kungrad Nohai Kenegas and other Mongol tribes that time became Turks and now they are Turks of the Mongol origin. And actually there is no big difference between Mongols and Turks as we are of the same origin.

@BarlasofIndus , Timur was a Turk, why you think Anatolian Turkic Beyliks changed sides during the battle and joined Timur? Here is the sources: "Timur, you are the sultan of all worlds, the king of the whole world. No ruler who ever walked the earth was equal to this Turk..." Ibn Khaldun, al-Târîf-bi Ibn Khaldun, p.251-252 Spanish envoy to Timur, "Ruy Gonzales Clavijo" claims in his book that Timur was a Turk: "Timur was of the race of Turkicimmigrants, of a noble lineage, proud of their ancestry." Ruy Gonzales Clavijo, The Life of Timur & Travels from Kadiz to Samarkand, p.21

I am curious to see their equipment . Those Serbian knights are legendary

One of the if not the greatest traitor of european history.

Please elaborate on traitor statement

@@MrGajgur Ottoman servant dog

⁠​⁠@@MrGajgurhe has none. Stefan Lazarević decided to stay on the sultan’s good side and honor his vassalage to the Ottoman throne due to his sister being the sultan’s wife. Anyone of us here would do the same for our sister. Interestingly, his sister got captured by Timur in the raids after the battle and was released without a ransom demand, due to the respect Timur had for Stefan and his knights. Stefan later proceeded to secede from the Ottomans with help from the Byzantine emperor.

it was so sad , Beyezid did everythign right , but the enemy just had too much more troops and ofc Timur strategy was very good too , he played his cards well

man i was so sad for Bayezid , he fought valiantly

He was betrayed in two fronts... but what can we say "everything is fair in love and war". the major impact here is that due to Timur constantinople fall 50 years later then expected and ottomans compaigns in Europe stopped for almost 20 years and it took 40 years for the ottomans to get back to what they where before the war.

@@majedbejaoui4285 oh yeah i forgot about that , the damn betrayers , do you think Bayezid would still lose the battle? if those squads didnt betray him? the damn horse archers were so numerous

​@AXharoth I think ultimately Timur was too good and too well equipped. Hard to see the Otomans repelling the elephant charge to break open the battle. Much respect for Bayazid. Have never liked him, but newfound respect after this video.

Especially since they weren't mercenaries!

I knew who was going to win but was still excited. The narration was excellent

Really? From the start was obvious for me that Timur cant be defeated ( because of much more mobile army, always had a chance to organize retreat without full lost). Ottomans had a lot more static army, so they could defend or loose battle completly. No going back for them. Those arent equal terms at the very start. At least greens using well terrain, reserves and had good battle leaders, so they gave themselves good chances. But wasnt enough, when other side dont make big mistakes.

To this day you can see the burned minarets in Sivas

Maybe that is where Shakespeare got the idea of "The Merchant of Venice".

Not all of the garrison but Armenian archers.

Timur was one of the greatest Turkic ruler in history

@@borakaraca9788 what great things did he left in your country?

​@@lirpakerof321 Especially with This Fact: The siege of Constantinople in 1394-1402 was a long blockade of the capital of the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I. Already in 1391, the rapid Ottoman conquests in the Balkans had cut off the city from its hinterland. After constructing the fortress of Anadoluhisarı to control the Bosporus strait, Bayezid tried to starve the city into submission by blockading it both by land and, less effectively, by sea. The Crusade of Nicopolis was launched to relieve the city, but it was decisively defeated by the Ottomans. In 1399, a French expeditionary force under Marshal de Boucicaut arrived, but was unable to achieve much. The situation became so dire that in December 1399 the Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Palaiologos, left the city to tour the courts of Western Europe in a desperate attempt to secure military aid. The emperor was welcomed with honours, but secured no definite pledges of support. The city was relieved when Bayezid had to confront the invasion of Timur in 1402. Bayezid's defeat in the Battle of Ankara in 1402 and the subsequent Ottoman civil war enabled the Byzantines to regain some lost territories in the Treaty of Gallipoli.

Maybe. But the interregnum and betrayal of beylik soldiers let Ottomans to see and fix the problems in administration which helped them hugely in future.

No, not really lol

​@@fairoboilawrence5287 lol yes really

@@fairoboilawrence5287 Wow, what a powerful argument! And such cogent evidence marshalled. You've convinced me! Lol.

Give Age Of Empires 4 a go, I relive these past moments in the game! It has Ottomans with Jannisaries and their great bombards, War Elephants (from Delhi Sultanate), order of the dragon (Serbian and other European noblemen), Abbasid, Ayyubids and more!

, siege of kruge, varna, 2 Kosovo and many more lol

I’m waiting for selim series against memluks

my proposal is whole series about Timur

@@Goldenbowl4 He did already marj dabiq and wont probably do another

Since the channel owner is Serbian, he assigned imaginary missions to the Serbs. In reality, the Serbs fought only on the left flank and fled when Timurid forces prevailed. Contrary to what is shown in the video, Lazar did not visit the Ottoman ranks and prevent the defeat. This is a fabrication of the channel owner

@@Spartan_Disiplin It actually isnt. Its in Otoman sources as well and in every historical record. You can google it up. And what Lazar? Are you on mashrooms on something? Lazar Stefans father died 13 years prior.

​@@Spartan_Disiplin You litteraly pulled that put of your ass lmao.

Traitor to europe he was.

​@@0trov_ Ottoman sources do not mention that Lazarovic did anything significant other than fighting on the left wing (under the command of the Ottoman vizier) and going to Yıldırım Beyazıt offering him to escape.

Same goes for the Tokhtamysh-Timur War! The Golden Horde would have won the Battle of the Terek River had that dirty minded Tamerlane not bribed the Tartars in the army!

yea, Beyezid mentioned chasing him to India because I think he didn't want to go all the way to India, so he made him come to Anatolia.

Turning Turks against Ottoman*. Turks saw closer Timur than Ottoman.

@@hooshyarkarimi9524 He did though unfortunately. He may have even lost to the Delhi Sultanate if he didn’t use an inhumane, dirty tactic.

@@EnenDjhd Because they’re rusty pieces of junk!

Even better than I thought.

Your comment prompted me to search for the painting. I found, what I believed to be, the one you are speaking of -- a beautiful color painting showing Bayezid reclining on a bed in an ornate room -- treatment befitting a captured sultan. Then, I came upon a black and white 19th century illustration showing Bayezid in prison, which was a much less benign depiction of the event four centuries earlier. History's interpretation can be inconsistent.

@@Mike-rf5tz Ahh yes ,I was talking about the first one. Do you think Bayzid committed suicide or just died in captivity?

@@minimumeffort1997 He may have been poisoned and hsi sons released so Ottomans can fight against each other. It worked since the most BRUTAL civil war in Ottoman history followed after Timur left. That civil war was the reason for the fratricide law (sultan must kill his brothers) being introduced.

Glad you enjoyed it!

@@HistoryMarche Absolutely! Your content always leaves me wanting more. Looking forward to diving into more fascinating historical narratives with HistoryMarche!

Much appreciated!

8 yearssss???

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While his father was the only Ottoman sultan to die on the battlefield, all within a generation...

Because that times actually rulers where in the real battle not sitting in their palace

@@Goldenbowl4 agreed. The janissaries must have been proud to fight by Bayezid until the end.

He could have escaped with Stefan Lazarević and the Serbian Calvary. But chose not to. Stefan’s sister (Bayezid’s wife) was also captured as well.

@@MarztheStoic janesseries fight to the last man that’s why it took Timur army to capture him so long but those janisseries was loyal to him, well what a time those guys lived…

Agreed, Tokhtamysh would have subdued Russians and Eastern Europeans, Bayezid would have continued with Balkans and onto North/West Europe and Timur would have invaded China and the remaining Asia.

Timur considered himself a mongol,as evidence by his writings.Let's not forget it were Turkic Uzbek tribes led by shaybani khan ozbek that fragmented and then destroyed all timurids, except babur who fled to Kabul, clearly developing deep hatred towards Uzbeks as evidence from his autobiography,which animosity lasted till his great great grandson Shah jahan who tried to invade Uzbek khanate to get revenge

timur was mongol.

Now let's imagine if the south, north and west Slavs united. You get the picture...

turks trying to banner everyone under ''turkic'' nothing new on internet

There is but hate and disrespect toward Timur and all that love him, guy was a maniac killing muslims christans women children nothing matters... because of him constantinople fall 50 years later and mulsim conquests in Europe stopped for more then 20 years.

Greetings to Uzbekistan from Turkiye.

Although Timur is Muslim , he ruined Islamic world order for no reason at all. I can't imagine that how Christian world would became happy after Timur's stupid rules. Timur only attacked Islamic world , never effectively tried to increase Islamic world beyond the territories. When he tried to attack China , he had sudden death. Nowadays Iranian Shia is the same as what Timur did at the past. Ironically

​@@yurimakarov6214 for real man Timur was a bigger problem for the muslim empires than any other at the time. Basically destroyed most the golden horde's power base, invaded the Mamluke and Delhi sultanates and set the conquest of Constantinople back by fifty years by defeating Ottoman army and looting its lands.

@@kadudeduder5103 he simply was a maniac bastard who caused the stop of Europe conquest for 50 years

When you have man fighters like Serbs and janiqeris fighting long side you on battle field you don't need to worry about your right and left sides.

They were not christians, because nonmuslims cannot fight with ghazi army

@@agandaur88 yes they were christians

​@@agandaur88yea dude you got no clue about history 😂 yes they are Christians now and then

@@agandaur88 That is false. Otomans were well tolerant with all religions throughout their history

Thank you very much!

Same man. But you do know how his story ends right?

he said last time that the team is working on it

They're too busy sucking up to Turkish nationalists.

​​​@@tommcduck7031yeah. Saw a comment from HM 2 weeks ago that they were working on the 4th attempt WIP /Work-in-progress development video adaptation for Part 20. Had to rewrite things alongside the animation

@@darthveatay He loses a battle in north africa, that may or may not have happened. Then he serves in the Seleucid navy.

No doubt

Traitor to europe and christianity.

In fact it was the opposite... Timur was like Napoleon who had gathered a lot of islamic nations of the middle east against the ottomans ...even in the battle the timur acted as the ultimate commander of muslims.... He even got the the title ghazi ( means veteran fighting for islam )

​@@ermalarapi4397No, Timur was a mass murderer.he is a shame to Islam.

@@ermalarapi4397 Yea Timur was more like Napoleon because of his mobility. Bayezid was more like Louis XIV, the sun king, in term of wealth and organization.

@@TemplarX2timur was great strategist but Bayezid was tactician and very Mobile hence the nickname the Thunderbolt and was hasty at time and risk taker

@@Rude_Thunder most top islamic rulers are mass murderers

Very kind of you. Thanks man.

@@HistoryMarche Battle of Otlukbeli 1478 AD Ottoman Turks Revenge To ankara war Aq qoyunlu Timurids alliance Mehmet 2 khan vs uzun hasan please new videos.

Timur also carved his empire from scratch in the middle of Mongol khanates. He was not of mongol origin. He was a turk. As you can see in the video he didn’t harm any muslim in the captured cities. Ottoman Sultan humiliated him and paved a way to his own destruction in the end.

​@@rasulmahmudov63 correct comment

That is bullshit.Yeah you turks are angels, while others are the evil.. And the crusaders at Nicopolis were a force similar to what Nato is today?Wtf

Timur was fast and furious. Ottomans were long-standing!

Thank you so much 😀

True, by the late 1400 to 1500 the Ottoman relied more on Serbian shock cavalry than Janissaries.

No doubt loyal to the last and fearsome fighters to

Loyal to the enemy of his people

@@JoeSmith-sl9bq. I told you once and I tell you once again hypocrite like you are not to be trusted even cleaning the toilet

He would later on join forces with Hungary and strength and reform Serbia. He was loyal to Bayezid, not the Ottomans.

Maybe it should be mentioned in the video that he and a lot of his men survived the battle. He was granted the title of despot by the Byzantine emperor after the battle. His journey back home was a story on its own. He lived for another 25 years.

Pretty much. The current world order can be viewed as a speck in the historical timeline. It's likely we can't even imagine who will control what one or two centuries down the line.

As a Turk, I wholeheartedly agree. He fully earned the right to fight in Turkish Valhalla.

He was also considered the last mongol conquerer, though he was heavily turkified and persianised

This are alliance today Chechens are Muslims but they are fighting long side Russians against US UK and collective West in Ukraine. It was the same for Serbian fighting long side ottomans against Timur forces

Since 1389 to 1878 Serbs and Turks works....and 1913 fu... Bulgarians ...