"The siege of Szabács 1476" Topic

"The siege of Szabács in 1476 was part of the propaganda King Mathias I Hunyadi of Hungary tried to convince the Western courts with, in terms of taking the Ottoman threat seriously. However, during all his reign, Mathias had the idea of Western conquest, and despite two sieges (Jajca in 1465 and Szabács in 1476) and destroying the invasion at Kenyérmező in 1479, he did not take any actions against the Turk territories on the Balkan: how wrong even the idea to attack was had been proven in the campaigns led by his father, János Hunyadi and King Vladislaus I of House Jagiello who lost his life at Varna in 1444, but we can also take the earlier example of King Sigismund of Luxembourg who, despite having an allied Crusader army of French and German knights, still lost the battle of Nicopolis in 1396 …"
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Amicalement
Armand

Thank you for posting!

All research was made for a literary competition about the age of the Hunyadis. The short story I entered with has been chosen to be included in the anthology and will be published (in Hungarian) the next September – until then, I won't be able to publish it anywhere.
I chose the siege because the obvious tension and the actual presence of the King (he usually let his captains do the bulk of the job). The research itself happened with the help of the Museum of Military History's library in Budapest.

Regards,
AM

It's quite interesting my friend András.
Hope to read more in the near future.
Keep up with the good work!.

Amicalement
Armand