Europe's biggest medieval battle: 1410AD Historical Battle of Grunwald 

One thing. It did not rain that day. In fact it was an extremely hot day in July.

Lithuanians learned the retreat-return tactic from Mongols and Tatars. It was almost certainly deliberate.

I absolutely love how the pontoon bridge is just a regular bridge with boats parked underneath it.😅

The numbers 27,000 - Teutonic Order and 39,000 of the Polish-Lithuanian alliance refer to the number of Knights meant as CAVALRY. On the Prussian side were around 1000+ footmen to operate artillery and a few groups of archers. There were no infantry units in this battle. Even light cavalry of Lithuanians had multiple heavily armed and armoured knights. It was a hell of constant charges and clashes of mostly heavy cavalry. It would explain why causalities on both sides were so high. Chroniclers writing the history of the battle on both sides of the conflict did not know the numbers of those killed. However, they agreed that the fight was a brutal bloodbath. "The battlefield was black with blood."

Great stuff. Concise and informative. I learned about something I did not know about. Look forward to the next one.

Just when you say they crossed the river over a pontoon bridge, the animation shows a regular wooden bridge. A great start!

Great video, the graphics and sound are awesome

Alright its pretry accurate but some things like Lithuanian cavarly was composed of mainly light tatar and light lithuanian cavarly. That guy refered as "King" was Polish king wich was Grand Dukes Vytautas cousin. Vytautas copied Tatars tactic from which he has lost before

Nice video but there's inaccurate position on a map for both armies and it wasn't any rain before the battle. Teutonic artillery shot twice without any effect. And most of all it was typical cavalry battle. Infantry been used by Jagiello for capture Teutonic camp.

Crazy to show, grit, determination, teamwork, great leadership by knowing the ability of your man whilst being the underdog shows it can happen!

You didnt mention the tatars that were among the polish lituanian. That day of the battle, it was present a prince of the blood, (altin ordu ) and at least 4,000 warriors of his troops. And i have read in diferent sourses that they started the battle at mid day.

Historically, there were no trebuchets in this battle only a few cannons that did nothing

Teutonics outnumbered three to two. That Lithuanian cavalry retreat was a classic Mongolian trick.

At first I wasn't going to give this video a chance, however I am glad I stayed and watched it. It's a great video. Well done. 👍 Good use of Attila to present your video too.

Jagiełło married THE KING of Poland, Jadwiga. It's subtle, but so important. She was crowned the KING, not the queeen - the wife of a king. She was the descendant of the rulling Piast dynasty that started the country of Poland, so they wanted to secure that she has equal rights. Let's honor the history - if you listen, there's really a lot fun things to take in.

Very comfortable editing, thank you for sharing.

Fantastic video of this battle..Learnt so much.!..Would you consider tackling the first siege of Malta.Knights of St.John Vs The Army of the Turkish Sultan..Thank you and all the best

The phrase "stone cannon" means a cannon made pf metal firing stone cannon balls.

Great video ; never even heard of this battle before . Hindsight is 20/20 but seems that the cavalry returning was a plan . When a unit was routed it would be nearly impossible to gather them together and fight again.

Jagielo married King of Poland. Jadwiga was a King.

The Teutonic Knights almost had victory in their grasp, but then the Liuthanians returned and decided it was not going to be the case. Still the Poles gave it their all and proved their own well established gallantry. Quite a reversal battle.

Used to be called the Battle of Tannensburg in English books.

The day was sunny and hot 😂

Literally, Teutonic knights didnt even walk close to the Polish King ;-;

Nicely done animation, however, I (humbly) think there are some serious errors: (1) Although both sides had cannons, they were not used in the Battle of Grunwald, and (2) it was a middle of July, it wasn't raining, according to all the historical texts, (at least what I red (and watched)), there was sunny, beautiful day, if anything, probably too hot to wear that heavy armor... There also is Polish movie - KRZYŻACY - which ends with this victory over Teutonic Order. The Great Master of TO was killed in this battle, but the rest of (German) army retreated to MALBORK - the biggest castle in Europe. Polish King - Władysław Jagiełło - did not pursue them. Now Malbork Castle is in Poland.

I remember that it wasn't raining that day

Graphics & animation ❤❤❤❤➕, content ❤❤❤❤❤. A detail about the animation: 5:24-5:28 Why didn't the Teutonic cavalary lower their lances to meet the charging enemy?

prawda ze w 15 minut krzyżacy zostali odrzuceni 800metrow biorąc pod uwagę ze to ciężko zbrojni to była egzekucja . bitwa trwała 4 godziny.. Polskie rycerstwo było lepiej uzbrojone i liczniejsze od sił krzyżackich a do tego jeszcze Litwa :)

Cool vid. What is the name of the song at the start?

I’m going Crazy on this Back again Known Is Love and My Life

Total phantasy -check dude the true facts about this fights with all points of changes.......but graphic are super

Vytautas of LT learned the retreat maneuver tactic when both he alongside the Tuetons fought the Golden Horde in 1399 and lost. Another reason the tactic worked is that Lithuania did not include the Lowland forces fast cavalry at the battle. There is an incorrect myth that no Lowland soldiers fought directly on the main battlefield in 1410. Some were there but rode under Highland private family army flags with the Gediminas columns. The Vytis/Knight flags were State forces.

Schönes geschichtliches Video!! Leider verstehe ich zu wenig Englisch!!! Vielleicht mit deutschen Untertitel!!?? Gruß aus dem Ruhrgebiet/Deutschland ❤❤❤

Teutonic order, Knights hospitallers and the Maltese knight is all reminiscents of the lost connections between the various viking tradecenters/powercenter that now was ruled by a "decentralised" king who follow christianity. - They even started to fight over who was right in their way of worship. Instead of having a free flow of commerce and ideas, we now had individuals who decided right and wrong, and people used colours to prove liegence to these rulers. Its crazy to see the direct transition from the viking age to the crusades to where we are today

I'm wondering what this game is that you're using? I was thinking maybe a mod for Medieval total war ... stainless steel perhaps? - But then i saw horses running around without riders and i though 'mount and Blade'. Yeah i'm guessing it's a mod for mount and blade.

Love the music... anyone know the name of the song 😊

Why does it rain during battle? After all, in historical chronicles it is written that it was a sunny day. Is there any way to fix this? 😄

where are the trebuchets from? where are the guns? there was already artillery there

This video is inaccurate beyond belief. 1) you show almost every Teutonic Order combatant in a armour wearing a black teutonic cross. There were only 570 Teutonic Knights in entire Europe. 300 of them in Prussia. Rest was mercenaries, guests and squires. None of them wearing a cross. 2) There were almost twice as much combatants on the Polish-Lithuanian side however not as many mercenaries as you would expect. 3) Guns were useless back then.

What’s the song you used in the beginning?

Please made video battle of crecy

One of the firt battle that a i see similarity with Anibal Master Piece Cannae. The Cavalry arrive, restore force and came back..

Duke of Lithuania didnt marry the queen of Poland but he married the king of Poland. Jadwiga/Hedwig was a woman but her title was "king of Poland" not queen.

Can you made battle of Warna?

As a Lithuanian in my heart i know that we Lithuanians,Polish, Russians, Belarussians, Ukrainians are all brothers . PEACE

The king's name was Jagiello (Jagiełło), not Jagiellon. Jagiellon is a descendant of this king, because the final -on is an ending characteristic, if not for Slavic languages, then at least for the Old Polish language, indicating descent from this king. Similarly to the descendant of King Charles Martel, he is called a Carolingian, where -ingian is an appropriate Germanic ending with a function similar to the above-mentioned -on.

Retreat debated by who? It was typical, tactical military move used before that battle and for few hundred years after!

No mention of Tatars?

Well done! What country were the Tutonic guys from? Never heard of them. Thanks!

There was no infantry in the Grunwald battle. Only cavalery. Some relatevely small number of infantry and servants were kept in camps. A few cannons were used by teutonics. they shoot twice and made no damage to alliance troops. So called 'white coats with black cross' - teutonic order members - only 250 of them were in the battle and only 14 of them survived. Others, ca.15000 troops, were dependent knights, landlords and their squads as well as mercenaries and guests with their squads. They were organised in divisions called "flag". The flag was the banner of the division. it was kept by ensigned man in the middle of group and was giving visual orders to fighting men like: attac, detach regrup, retreat or escape. Rolling and puting down the banner was an order to surrander. As graphicak presentation the movie is great. As historical presentation the movie is crap.

Wait, what??!!! How DARE they have gunpowder in the middle ages???!!!!!!! That goes against the rules of Hollywood!

What is the song in the opening?

An old Polish movie in which this battle is shown ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YBs4a4Io49I.html

Hardly the biggest but a nice video nontheless :)

Teutonic army deployed no infantry units in this battle, and use of bombards was experimental. Teutonic knight and theier servants constitued a minority of combatants, and the rest were theier secular vassals with some western crusaders. Polish-Lithuanian army also used cavalery units and Lithuanian cavalery was lighter then men-at-arms fighting in polish and teutonic units.

Hey I have a question. I recently reinstalled this game and when I load it with the 1212 ad mod pack all the models are fucked up. Missing textures, missing models. The Teutonic order for some reason looks Ike the kongols now. What the fuck. Can anyone help me?

Nice video but you're wrong, this was not Europe's biggest medieval battle - just check out the battle of Vaslui 1475

That's not a Paton bridge, no supporting boats.

what is this game called?

What is the chant in the background

This date (1410) belongs to 3 best known among my countrymen

Jadwiga wasnt a queen, she was a king ;)

What defeated the Germans was their excessive conceit. And it works for everybody and everywhere. That's psychology, brother.

A lot of horses were slaughtered 😢😢 so sad

Great work, but this was hardly " Europe's biggest medieval battle" as your title suggests.

03:06 Do what????? I have trained on (and trained people on) some of the biggest replica cannon in the UK and I have NEVER seen one recoil FORWARD into the blast!!!! Magic, maybe?

The pronunciation of the name Jagiełło is really frustrating, please read it in Polish and not your English.

game?

Jagiellon is pronounced Yagyellon; Jungingen is pronounced Yungingen.

Song +9000

1410- it's a recipe for a hooch/monshine/homebrew. It's that: 1 kilogram of sugar, 4 litters of water and 10 decagram of yeast. Offcourse its just a mash, ypu need to distil it then

Jadwiga (Hedwig) of Anjou was the crowned king of Poland, not the queen. and for God's sake, there is no /ʤeɪ/ in the name of the Jagiellonian dynasty

Wat battle is this

For the love of God 🙄 🤦‍♂️, if you're going to cover Central European names, in this case, German and Polish proper names, PLEASE pronounce the names correctly, the names here are being butchered by the narrator 🙄🤦‍♂️. I recommend going back, starting over, learning how to correctly pronounce the names and re-upload the presentation.

The Lithuanian calvary did a rope a dope.

In German history it's a battle of Tannenberg

I love that you used modded Attila TW to show the battle, but almost everything about it is wrong. Lithuanian LIGHT cavalry was send first to taunt heavy Teutonic cavalry, so they fell into their own trap - ground pits. Then they made a fake retreat. Polish and Teutonic heavy cavalry charged into each other and then Lithuanian army came back to surround and win the battle. It was a devastating victory for the Commonwealth. It would be very hard for the Commonwealth to win this battle without these tactics, Teutons were like medieval tanks.

Polish-lithuania forces doessn't have infantry

Very good pal but do make an attempt to pronounce the names correctly. It’s simply cringing

Pray for our Grand Master and all the regional commanders, who govern our lands and people; and for all the brothers who exercise office in our Order, that they act in their office of the Order in such a way as not to depart from God. - Teutonic Knights by William L. Urban

wildly inaccurate, the bombards have been useless during the battle baceuse of low accuracy and being placed directly on the ground, not on wheels like in the video

Ten film jest niezgodny z prawdą historyczną. To wstyd, że jedno z największych zwycięstw w 1000-letniej historii oręża polskiego zostało przedstawione w tak karykaturalny sposób.

Great video. However The allies hopelessly outnumbered the teutonics, not just my a few thousand but at least 5-1 and GM Ulrich charched at the Polish King and the King didn't even fight him he was protected by his bodyguard and suddenly Ulrich was surrounded and killed. And the teutonic knights Charge at the lithuanian, tartars etc at the beginning simply blasted them and chased them and returned back with spoils after 2 hours. some lithuanians even went home, it was no pretence of retreat. Then they later regrouped and retuned to the field. 10 days later at the siege of Marienburg the heavily outnumbered and outgunned Teutonics led by the future Hochmeister Heinrich von Plauen killed more of the allies than at Grunwald and emerged victorious , they took back most of the castles/fortressed taken by the allies aswell and against the advice by fellow knights commander Heinrich von Plauen wanted to keep chasing them off. The supposedly Catholic Christian polish king before grunwald sought help and troops from scismatics , pagans and muslims to swell his ranks. what sort of catholic Christian would do that to fight against fellow catholic christians?

there clearly could have been a better way to handle this dispute.

Great video, but you've butchered every name possible 😅

There is no doubt that the withdrawal of the Russians was done on purpose which was the implementation of the tactics they learned while fighting the Mongols.

I'm really sick and tired of these AI voices narrating videos. Can't even pronounce "Polish" correctly (FYI, it's NOT like "polishing" a shoe). FFS, can anyone be bothered to at least proofread these things?

I only wonder why they all shout in English. 😜🤣

AI-narrated? 😅

Good God man, learn how to pronounce words like 'lead' as in the metal.

I understand that pronunciation can be challenging, but such a brutal butchery of King Jagiellos name is just atrocious. Zero professionalism. I lost all interest.

Great video but can't stand the AI narrator, instant put off.

Lad ! Was no rain that day ! Different story .. Different then my history book and movie .. Im Polish!!! And I dont like your story lad , just because u talking shit mate,no offence.

Americans and pronounciation of non-trivial names.. sigh.

Your incredibly bad mis-pronunciation of many words in your reading, make this a painful viewing experience

There was no rain during the battle. The weather was sunny and hot and sky was clear. Also the battle was mostly cavalry battle, infantry playing very minor to almost non-existent role, same with very inaccurate bombards.

These "Lithuanians"should be identified with today's Russians and Belorussians rather not with today's Lithuanians. The name of the country was The Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Russia and the name Lithuania preceded Russia only because the ruling dynasty came from Lithuania. The official language was old-Russian, the law was based on the laws of the Rurikids'Rus and vast majority of the people were Orthodox Rus people and not mostly pagan at that time Lithuanians. Because untill the end of the XVI century Rurikids were still in power in Moscow they were trying to regain control over their former lands which led to the wars between Grand Duchy of Moscow on one side and Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on the other - both ruled by the Jagiellon ( spelling is Yagiellon! ) dynasty.

Different sources give different numbers of troops, but about 100,000 took part in the battle. people and it was the largest battle of the Middle Ages. Europe ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pIlsuU5_jfM.html

your voice to soft - your narration to poor. otherwise nice work.

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