The Battle That Made Church Bells Ring at Noon: The Siege of Belgrade, 1456
A preacher, 2,000 farmers, and the empire that had just taken Constantinople In July 1456, a 70-year-old Franciscan friar stood in front of roughly 2,000 farmers armed with slings and scythes, and pointed at an Ottoman army of some 60,000 men. He was not a soldier. He had been a lawyer. And within hours, the … Read more