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The Hungarians, shocked at the unexpected sight, wavered, and, feeling themselves lost, began to fly. All the entreaties and exhortations of Hunyady were in vain. Such was the confusion that he could be neither seen nor heard, and in a few minutes the whole Hungarian army was in headlong flight. Hunyady, left to himself, had also to seek safety in flight.
Luckily it did not take long to force the discontented to own the weight of his arm and his superiority as a military leader. Order being thus to some extent reestablished at home, Hunyady was again able to turn his attention to the Turks.
This the friar did to such effect that in a few weeks he had collected sixty thousand men, ready to fight in defence of the cross. This army of crusaders the last in the history of the nations had for its gathering cry the bells of the churches; for its arms, scythes and axes; Christ for its leader, and John Hunyady and John Capistran for his lieutenants.
Election of Pope Nicholas V, founder of the Vatican Library. See "REBUILDING OF ROME," viii, 46. Grammar-schools founded in London, England. Amurath II, or Murad, defeats Hunyady at Cassova. War between France and England renewed; Normandy conquered by the French; Rouen is surrendered. Rebellion of Jack Cade in England. He was slain and his head stuck on London bridge. He is proclaimed duke.
And now something happened which had hitherto been deemed incredible: the Sultan sued for peace a true believer and a sovereign, from an "unbelieving giaour." In three short years Hunyady had undone the work of years on the part of the Turks. The Sultan, however, soon repented of what he had done, and continually delayed the fulfilment of his promise to evacuate certain frontier fortresses.
Genoa submits to the King of France, Charles VII. Election of Matthias, son of Hunyady, as King of Hungary. George Podibrad, leader of the church-reform party, chosen King of Bohemia. 1459. Silesia submits to Podibrad, King of Bohemia. James II of Scotland takes up arms against the English; he is killed, by the bursting of a cannon, at the siege of Roxburgh castle; his son, James III, succeeds.
Bajazet I, the son and successor of Amurath, still further extended the Turkish conquests. A strong combination, including, with other peoples, the Hungarians and Poles, was made against him. In the struggle that followed, and which for a time promised the complete expulsion of the Turks from Europe, the great leader was the Hungarian, John Hunyady, born in 1388.
Hunyady died, worn out with ceaseless warfare, and his son, Matthias, was elected by acclamation to be monarch of the land the father had preserved. This was the proudest era in the history of the Hunnish race.
Hunyady, however, raised their spirits by gaining a victory; lighting one night upon a body of the enemy, twenty thousand in number, he attacked them at once and after a few hours' struggle succeeded in dispersing them. Later on he took two large towns with their citadels, and in three engagements triumphed over three separate divisions of the enemy.
They summoned him in the King's name to Vienna, where Ladislaus, as an Austrian prince, was then staying, with the intention of waylaying and murdering him. But Hunyady got wind of the whole plot, and when he arrived at the place of ambush it was at the head of two thousand picked Hungarian warriors. Thus it was Czillei who fell into the snare.
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