Talk:Battle of Kosovo (1448)
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[edit] Regarding Numbers
I couldn't find any info about the size of armies in any reputable source. any help?
- "Hunyadi,who was now the richest landowner in Hungary, had raised an army of 24,000 men from his private resources, including German and Bohemian infantrymen armed with handguns to supplement his Hungarian cavalry. [...] This time the sultan brought on to the field a force of at least 60,000 men including Janissaries with muskets and a contingent of artillery." Jean W.Sedlar, East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500, p. 248
- "Hunyadi led an army of 24,000 men, including 8,000 Wallachians, but suffered another military defeat without even seeing his Albanian allies." S.R. Turnbull, The Ottoman Empire 1326-1699, p. 36 Lysandros 03:15, 19 October 2006 (UTC)