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Updated: June 23, 2025
The plan of operations was exceptionally daring, yet Hunyady had not resolved on it without careful consideration. In the mean time, through Hunyady's exertions, Wladislaw III, the young King of Poland, had been elected king of Hungary.
At the news of the brilliant victory the Te Deum was sung in all the more important cities throughout Europe, and the Pope wished to compliment Hunyady with a crown. A crown of another character awaited him that of his Redeemer, in whose name he lived, fought, and fell.
Hunyady counted besides on the assistance of Europe; in the first place on the popes, who were zealous advocates of the war against the Mahometans; next on Venice, which, as the first commercial city and state at that time, had suffered severe losses owing to the spread of Turkish dominions; on the gallant Poles, whose King now wore the Hungarian crown; and lastly upon the peoples of Christendom in general, whose enthusiasm for a war against the infidels had been quickened by the report of Hunyady's victories.
Without example in the history of the storming of fortresses was the stratagem practised by Hunyady when he permitted the picked troops of the enemy, the janizaries, to penetrate within the fortification, and there destroyed them in the place they thought they had taken.
Such magnanimity, however, did not disarm the hostility of those who surrounded the King. On the pretence of treason against the King, Hunyady was deprived of all his offices and all his estates.
Emperor Frederick III creates Austria a duchy. Mental aberration of Henry VI of England; the Duke of York protector. Publication of the first-known printing with movable type. See "ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF PRINTING," viii, i. Venice by a treaty with Turkey secures trade privileges in Greece. Beginning of the contest for the crown of England. Battle of Belgrade; victory of Hunyady over the Turks.
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