Battle of Pressburg, 907 AD ⚔️ Hungarian Invasion of Europe

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This is the reason why horse archers are banned from multiplayer in total war games.

The most important thing, which is overlooked by most people, is that the early Hungarian horse archers were so effective, because they were not soldiers. Most of them were warriors or shepherds. According to sources they learnt how to ride the horse in their early childhood, even before they could walk. Archaeologic evidences proves that they started to train with the bow as soon they were old enough to hold it. Basically they launched campaigns against the Western and Eastern countries every year, so they were quite experienced in fighting. They operated in smaller tactical units, the members were bonded together by countless battles. They had a lot of horses, so they could swap to fresh horses several times during a battle.

Brave Hungarian brothers, i always like and proud Hungarian History from steppe to Pannonia, and also Avars, Pechenegs, Cumans all proud, greetings from Turkey !

Just imagine. After an exhausting battle you have to swim across a river in a total silence to fight another battle at dawn. How could they swim with such huge balls. Respect!

I really love the fact that the raiding parties applied uneven pressure on the two marching sides causing them to separate. Perfect example of divide and conquer.

Arpad: Hit and Run Dietmar : Hit and rush Luitpold: Hide and Rest

I love Hungary and am always interested to learn more about this wonderful country. Greetings from Albania❤

Defeat in detail so greatly done, even Napoleon would have been impressed.

We are so used hearing again and again about very well known battles like Mohacs, Tannenberg, Kossovopolje, but battles like this go unnoticed. And what a battle, what superior command of steppe military tactics, what boldness to even dare to do such things. Astonishing battle! Greetings from Romania!

"More than a hundred years would pass before a Western army would dare enter hungarian territory again..." - that tells everything.

How many millions of times have horse troops faked a retreat? How often does the other side fall for it? (Everytime)

Second part of the battle wasn't told. When the German armies were defeated at Pozsony (Pressburg), Hungarians have chased the reminder of the fleeing Germans all the way back to Ennsburg, where king Luis the child was residing in "relative safety" behind the protection of 10k strong German elite troops, waiting for "the good news", instead of the good news he sow fleeing Germans and the chasing Hungarian army. Hungarians were so quick perusing the Germans that Luis the child hardly had enough time to organist the 10k strong rested German troops into battle formation around Ennsburg. ...and yes, you have guest it right, the 5k strong Hungarian chasing party smashed the 10k rested German troops. Luis the child left the battlefield before the battle started, fearing for his life, ran all the way to North Germany. Hi spent the rest of his life there, never dared to visit southern Germany ever again.(Bavaria)

Underrated brutal victory. Eastern Francs lost their elites almost entirely. And a new European nation was declared.

I often saw this strategy deployed by raiders countries, and we saw it on this channel with the battle of Andrinople. But THIS, this is another level. Wiping out two armies plus a fleet with a third of the ennemy strengh is an unprescendented accomplishement, I am deeply impressed before the sheer discipline and luck of the magyar army and before this video, I never heard about this battle, for this I thank you HistoryMarche !

Oh my god this map is gorgeous. With all these forests, fields and mountains, it really gives an idea about how big Europe is. Beautiful! Also great video, keep up the good work!

Árpád had 5 sons. The oldest Liüntika was assasinated by the east franconian in 904. The 2nd Tarkacsu, the 3rd Jelek and the 4th Jutocsa sons of Árpád died in this battle. Árpád died in or shortly after the battle. He was old and had poor health. His youngest son Zolta was still teenager and he did not take part in the battle for safety reasons and he followed Árpád as the ruler of Hungary.

Wow, that's quite a feat of Hungarian planning, logistics, communication,leadership, bravery... imagine doing that today without radio, satellite, GPS links, even those on the winning side wouldn't really know what's going on just a few hundred meters away. We get used to well designed maps to explain the battle, but it must have been really chaotic and scary on the ground. Great video.

Only if we had commanders like them back in 1500s.... thank you for the video! Cheers from Hungary!!

We as Hungarians thank you for this very informative documentary about our ancestors! Keep up the great work.