| In 1456 the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II, conqueror of Constantinople, laid siege to Belgrade. The governor of Hungary, János Hunyadi, provisioned and armed the fortress of that city, collected a considerable army of mercenaries, and was joined by a poorly equipped and ragged army of peasants. On this day, this untrained army and Hunyadi's troops won one of the most remarkable victories in the history of Turkish wars, raising the siege and saving Hungary from Ottoman conquest for 70 ... |