How Hungary Finally CRUSHED the Mongols - DOCUMENTARY 

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“Never fight the same enemy too often or you will teach him everything you know of war.” -Napoleon Bonaparte

“A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit.” - Greek Proverb Bela IV’s long term plan saved his nation.

As a Hungarian, it was a pleasure to see someone make a video about this. Hungarian history is neglected in the world, but it is very exciting and, unfortunately, many people do not even know about it. Thank you for the video, it was very good.

In Poland, it is remembered that the Hungarians helped defeat the Third Mongol invasion of Poland (winter1287/88) The brave Magyars have helped Poles more than once in history. Even during WW2 era, the Hungarians refused to help their german allies in the invasion of Poland, and when the Ukrainian Bandera followers carried out genocide against the defenseless Polish population in Volhynia, the Hungarians defended the Poles. Even during the Warsaw Uprising, the Germans moved units of the Hungarian army away from Warsaw for fear that they would support the Polish insurgents. Hungarians, my dear friends - as a Polander, I thank You very much for a thousand years of friendship, rarely interrupted by incidental conflicts.

The Mongols : Stay down ! You are beaten! Hungary : I didn’t hear no bell ….

The crossroads of Europe, those kingdoms that looked east, faced the Mongols then the Ottoman Turks throughout history…what a bloody and glorious past!

There's no weakness in defeat if you learn from your mistakes

My grandfather came from Hungary before he settled in N. America. I found this video worth watching.

Bela IV, escaping from mongols invasion, took shelter in Croatias fortified medieval town of Gradec and was saved. As a sign of gratitude, he awarded Gradec freedom from all taxes and obligations. This Golden Bula was an important document and an event that greatly contributed to the development of Croatias today capital Zagreb.

Greetings from Poland to Hungary! Great that Hungary was victorious. Poland also managed to defeat the Mongols in several battles. By the way, in the victory of the Poles against the Mongols in the Battle of Stary Sącz, Poland won with the support of Hungarian troops. The Mongols didn't dare to attack Poland after that.

I am a simple Polish girl - I see a video about Hungarian people, I click. "Polak, Węgier dwa bratanki i do szabli i do szklanki. Oba zuchy, oba żwawi, niech im Pan Bóg błogosławi!" 🇵🇱❤️🇭🇺

Deny your enemy access to supplies and plunder. Especially in winter. Good lesson.

Hungary: -Call the ambulance! -But not for me.

I learned a lot about the Magyars because my wife is one and they know their history. Very rich and it goes back pretty far. Took lotsa pictures!

In the West often forget but HUngary was a Medieval Great Power and could set up a strong army. During Matthias Corvinus the Black Army of Hungary was the biggest and well-equiped army in Europe.

As a Hungarian, I found this video very interesting and it contained many details about which we didn't have time to learn in the elementary school. Thank you! :)

the Hungarians have such an amazing history and heritage

I love how any time there's a fight, Hungary defends Poland like it is their own brother. More countries could learn from that friendship.

Ria ria Hungariiiia!!!! From Poland with love.

The Hungarians were quite close to defeating the mongols in their first invasion at Mohi, they ambushed the mongol vanguard and slaughtered them. However fighting the next waves they failed in communication somehow and King Bela IV failed to rouse their army. This delay allowed the other half of the mongol forces to cross a second point in the river attack them in the flank after which the Hungarians retreated to their camp. To give example of the direness of the mongol position in the battle Batu Khan lost 30 of his bodyguards and wanted to retreat. To his credit however Bela did not submit to mongolian demands for submission or "alliance", granted though he knew he couldn't trust them.

“If ignorant of both your enemy and yourself you are certain to be in peril” - Sun Tzu. The Mongols made the mistake of underestimating the Hungarians ability to adapt. And they exposed their own inability to do the same.

Respect for Hungary.

Eastern European history deserves way more attention than it gets from the wider world.

Very interesting documentary of events, I knew nothing about. Brave Hungarians and their great King, Bela lV, who learned his lesson. Cheers from Denmark

Greetings from a Hungarian! Thank you for your work!💞💞

Oh wow. I stopped watching this channel for a few years to hyperfocus on medicine and the quality has jumped up 10x. These recent videos are spectacular!

Fantastic video. Your work is top tier. As someone married to a Magyar I have found their history to be remarkable. Thank you for this.

respect to all Hungarians...brave and strong warrior..from philippines

I'm Scottish and loves this. Please if you could keep these Eastern European history vids coming. They are rare in the Western Europe historical sphere.

Well done! Fascinating history of a great miedeval power Hungary!

This is easily one of the best channels on RU-vid. I had always wondered when the Mongol invasions of Europe ended, and why.

This is my first time on your channel mate, I'm impressed. Very good documentary on the Hungarians which you hardly ever hear about on other channels. Well done mate

As a history enthusiast, I found this documentary to be both educational and captivating. The analysis of King Béla IV's reforms and the subsequent defense against the Mongols is brilliantly presented. Thank you!

Great video. The Hungarian knights were amazing.

Thanks for this. In N. America we learn so little of the great struggles of the E. European powers, Hungary, Poland, Byzantium etc. in preserving European civilization after the fall of Rome..

As Albanian I really enjoyed it. Our King back then was very good with Hungarian King as they grew up in Ottoman forces, but loving history no matter the story is beautiful when some beautiful battles like this gets some recognition. Peace everyone.

Hungarians are real , Brave and Strong Heroes ❤

Glad to learn that the Hungarians were able to rise up and push back the Mongolians...👍

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Apart from being a textbook example of the value of surviving a defeat long enough to learn from it, the 2nd Mongol Invasion of Hungary is also a good example of military stagnation on the part of the Golden Horde; whereas the Mongols in China and the Middle East seem to have quickly adapted the methods and technologies of their foes, the Golden Horde seems to have, if anything, technologically regressed after the splintering of the Mongol Empire. The horde that conquered the Southern Song was arguably a Chinese-style army that happened to have Mongol officers and unusually capable light cav, and Hulagu’s army seems to have employed some of the finest siege engineers from all across Eurasia, but the Golden Horde seems to have largely fielded a classic steppe-style army with relatively few siege engineers and heavy infantry/cav auxiliaries. As for why they never bothered to reform after their defeats in Hungary and Poland, well, such an army was still perfectly suited for controlling the mostly steppe terrain of the Horde’s own territory (among obviously many other reasons).

As a hungarian, and a lover of the history good to watch these kinde of videos from not-hungarians. Many thanks for that! :)

Crazy how far the Mongols managed to go.

As a Hungarian, I loved watching this. Keep the Eastern European videos coming! 😁

Interestingly, at almost the exact same time, in 1281, on the other side of the globe, the Japanese defeated the Mongols during their second invasion. They also used the time between the first and second invasions to prepare, build fortifications and improve their weaponry.

I am a simple Pole. I see Hungary, I like.

As a Polish person, we also suffered from the Mongols!

As Polish im proud of my Hungary Brothers, its lime watching Game if throne, literally based on it i belive

People forget how utterly smacked around the Mongols got in this war. Hungary basically one man took on the Mongols. This was supposed to be an invasion of Europe, they didn't get past Hungary. Nuts.

Respect from Greece..glory to Hungary

King Béla IV of Hungary left to his son, to Stephen, a prosperous, a rebuilt, a fortified kingdom in 28 years. Béla successfully concluded the alliance between the houses of Árpád and Anjou with a mutual marriage contract. In the last year of his life, in December 1269, Abbot of Monte Cassino Bernhard Ayglerius visited Hungary as the envoy of King Charles I of Anjou. He reported enthusiastically to his lord, the foreign, impartial contemporary envoy saw Béla's court as follows: "The Hungarian royal house has incredible power, its military forces are so large that nobody in the East and the North dares even budge if the triumphant and glorious king mobilizes his army. Most of the countries and princes of the North and East belong to his empire by kinship or conquest." Galician-Volhynian Chronicle about the second Mongol invasion: "Talabuga went to the mountains which can be crossed in three days, but he wandered for thirty days pursued by the wrath of God, and they were so hungry that they started to eat human flesh, then they themselves began to fall, and incredible many were lost. Eyewitnesses said that there were a hundred thousand deads, and the ungodly Telebuga came back on foot and his wife on a bad nag, God made him so miserable" Louis I of Hungary dispatched Andrew Lackfi to invade the lands of the Golden Horde in retaliation for the Tatars' earlier plundering raids against Transylvania and the Szepesség. Lackfi and his army of mainly Szekely warriors crossed the Carpathian Mountains and imposed a decisive defeat upon a large Tatar army on 2 February 1345. The Hungarian warriors were victorious in their campaign, decapitating the local Tatar leader, the brother-in-law of the Khan, Atlamïş, and making the Tatars flee toward the coastal area. The Golden Horde was pushed back behind the Dniester River, thereafter the Golden Horde's control of the lands between the Eastern Carpathians and the Black Sea weakened. We can see this event leads the establishment of Moldavia in 1346 as a Hungarian vassal state.

Hungary was the bastion of the east. My grandpas name was Belá too.

I agree with Bundás kenyér. It was indeed a pleasure to see a video about Hungarian history. By the way, my mother's maiden name was Balogh.

I love it. Hungarian history is rich and very colorful and not popular to cover in the west, so I appreciate this

Nice to see a video about central Europe. 👍 It would be great to also see a video about subsequent third Mongol invasion of Poland (1287-88), which was Hungary's ally, where Mongols were also succesfully repulsed. At the time the Polish High Duke was Leszek the Black very skilled leader who have also defeated the Ruthenian, Yotvingian and Lithuanian invasions before that.

People keep giving Japan credits for their victories against the Mongols without doing anything while ignoring Poland and Hungaries encounter with the Mongols.

Thanks for covering the defeat of the mongols, in Hungary. I have not heard of this victory of Christendom over the Mongols. 😃

I am American/Magyar and I really liked this video. We might be a small country but we have a lot of fight in each of us.

Good job Hungary 🇭🇺 thank you

It’s nice to see an often ignored part of history shown here

11:32 so in a way Hungary 🇭🇺 saved europe form mongol conquest, man the king of the knights must’ve been seen as hero’s here.

I love this history. It’s so fascinating to learn about and how huge their army was back in the day.

One of the forgotten great victories.

What a King!!! Legendary. I'm so glad that I discovered this channel, thank you so much

The Knights Templar were there as well? Amazing fortitude and courage they had.

Mongols of the first half of the 13th century were unstoppable, as for the latter half many nations had already managed to defeat Mongols in war ; Javanese (Majapahit), Turks (Khalji & Bahri Mamluks), Japanese, Vietnamese (Dai Viet)

I'm a Magyar, and didn't even know about this triumph! I knew about the asskicking we suffered from the Mongols in 1241, they teach us about that in school.....but I didn't know that we returned the asskicking in 40 y. time.

I always loved the Mongols thanks to Age of Empires 2, but knowing what they did, it's nice to see Hungary crush them

My husband, who has Mongolian ancestors (a long time ago), sent me this video. Part of my ancestry is Hungarian. This is fascinating. It's good to be a fan of history.

My name is Ladislav from BIG RESPECT and I am proud of that part of my origin, in addition to the Croatian one

I have never been exposed to the history of Central Europe. Excellent presentation.

"Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war." - Aristophanes

In modern days, the entire operation would've been called a proper and thorough assessment of enemy forces. Neither Kievan "druzhinas" (relatively small units of professional warriors), nor the armies of the Central Asia were ready to defeat the unique army of Mongolian horsemen. Thier main charge was like a set of tidal waves: wave after wave, after wave, after wave -- until the enemy forces get crushed. King Bela just realized that what he needed was a number of breakwaters and seawalls.

Hungary certainly had knights before the Battle of Mohi, indeed Hungarian knights charged with Knights Templar during it. Hungary gained the first major infusion of knightly culture in the 990's, when a large contingent of them escorted the first Queen of Hungary from Bavaria to it, many settling in it, with descendants carrying on their culture, with it also spreading to the native nobility. And ever since then, there had been a continual influx of foreign nobles and their descendants becoming Hungarian aristocrats. The main reason Hungary had relatively few knights at the Battle of Mohi was due to King's relationship with the nobility, not because the country lacked them. But at the same time, it is true that a proportion of the nobility before Mohi preferred the old horse archer way of fighting, which was still competing with the knightly style for popularity. With Mohi, the knightly style certainly got a huge upswing. But I do think you heavily overstate the case about the lack of knights in Hungary before the Battle of Mohi, knightly culture was definitely the culture of a large proportion of the nobility. Still, good videos!

I would like to mention that 5 big mongol/tatar invasion were in hungarian/transylvanian history: 1241/42, 1285/86, 1598, 1658, and the last 1716. The last 3 attacks came from krimean tatar khanat. The sekels (székelyek) defended the mountains and basins of the Carpatians.

These glorious moments of sacrifice for freedom need to be made into films.

Thank you very much for this nice historical documentary! In spite of being Hungarian, I knew very little about this bloody chapter of our nation 's past. The video can definitely bring history much closer to viewers not so well informed of Hungary's battles against military invasions from the east. Köszönöm!👍❤️

Courage at it's best.

Great job on this vid. Thanks. I didn’t know this part of the Mongol history. I knew they were beaten back at some point but this was comprehensive enough to give it some good context.

I am simple polish i see video about hungary empire i watch and like !

Any army can be beaten. Nobody's invulnerable, as countless conquerors throughout history have found out.

Giving you a thumbs up just for the cold open. Looking forward to the rest of this. Cheers!

I'm so happy seeing RCH's video quality improve over the years

Loved this. Why are people only aware of the first Hungary - mongol war

Great cultures come out of great suffering. Hungary is no exception. Art, architecture, cuisine and literature flourish in Budapest.

Great story. 1241 Poland was attacked just by one wing of huge Mongols Army that mainly attacked Hungary

Great video! It was very informative and good to watch. One of my ancestors was a childhood friend of Béla the IV. and he later became Palatine, so learning about this era is always special for me.

Good story, well told. I detest raiding bands because they always take advantage of virtually defenceless civilian populations. It happens in Africa quite often today. It's cowardly. But because raiders are all about speedy smash and grab they don't carry siege equipment or supplies for more than a few days and are thus vulnerable. King Bela's reforms reminded me of Alfred's fortification of his burhs (towns or strongpoints) in response to raids by the Vikings in England. Alfred nullified the Vikings apparent superiority and he and his descendants were able to defeat them repeatedly.

That was the most epic documentary I've ever watched. Thanks for the upload, I learned a lot!

Poles , Magyar two brothers to sabre and glas…

A nap tanulsága: soha ne add fel

The best I've seen detailing the wars of this time and location, I just subscribed. Congratulations to you and your team !

I really loved this video. I thought the background you gave to the campaign really helped to paint a good picture of the situation. lots of history channels only focus on the battles themselves.

Nice piece of history, reminiscent of Alfred's war against the Danes for England, three centuries before. But Alfred was lucky to field a few thousand warriors. The Mongols came at Hungary with 10s of thousands.

Thank you! Well done. The story of us - all of us - is so so interesting. I find myself watching these documentaries on you tube all day.

I am really grateful for this video, because there are a ton of them about the battle of Mohi, but it is rare see one that deals with the time after that devastating defeat and our steadfast people's resolve to push back invasion force after that.

What an inspiring story. Thanks for this great presentation.

That was awesome! Thank you for that excellent video and piece of history!!!

YES, finally the video I've been waiting for! Thank you much! I only wish it was you narrating 😭 still a great video on a great topic! Miss the old style, but still great content, keep it up!