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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_of_Nicopolis Battle of Nicopolis]] in the 15th century, also known as the Crusade of Nicopolis, where the French Knights (does anybody see a pattern here?) disobeyed orders from the crusade leader (King Sigismud of Hungary), who asked them to wait two hours until the Wallachian scouts, led by their prince Mircea the Elder, returned. The French accused Sigismund of wanting to hoard all the glory and charged. While they were successful at first, overrunning the inexperienced infantry that sultan Bayazid used as bait, they were soon attacked by archers and impaled their horses on a row of spikes that Bayazid had prepared the night before. Did the French retreat? ''No''. They just dismounted and attacked the Janissaries on foot, beating them. Did they now have a break and rest and regroup? ''No''. They [[AttackAttackAttack attacked the Turkish elite Sipahi cavalry]] behind the Janissaries [[TooDumbToLive on foot]], and inevitably came out second best. A lot of French high nobles died that day. Mircea the Elder knew the battle was lost when he saw the French charge and led his troops away from the field and over the Danube, to defend Wallachia from Bayzid's inevitable counter-attack once he was done slaughtering French knights.
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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusade_of_Nicopolis Battle of Nicopolis]] in the 15th century, 1396, also known as the Crusade of Nicopolis, where the French Knights (does anybody see a pattern here?) disobeyed orders from the crusade leader (King Sigismud of Hungary), who asked them to wait two hours until the Wallachian scouts, led by their prince Mircea the Elder, returned. The French accused Sigismund of wanting to hoard all the glory and charged. While they were successful at first, overrunning the inexperienced infantry that sultan Bayazid used as bait, they were soon attacked by archers and impaled their horses on a row of spikes that Bayazid had prepared the night before. Did the French retreat? ''No''. They just dismounted and attacked the Janissaries on foot, beating them. Did they now have a break and rest and regroup? ''No''. They [[AttackAttackAttack attacked the Turkish elite Sipahi cavalry]] behind the Janissaries [[TooDumbToLive on foot]], and inevitably came out second best. A lot of French high nobles died that day. Mircea the Elder knew the battle was lost when he saw the French charge and led his troops away from the field and over the Danube, to defend Wallachia from Bayzid's inevitable counter-attack once he was done slaughtering French knights.
