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🚩 “Deliver us, O Lord, from the arrows of the Hungarians” – A hymn from Modena, Italy c.900 AD. Brenta was one of the earliest battles of the Magyar invasions of Europe. Between 860 and 970, the Magyars were the scourge of Europe. They devastated and pillaged a wide swath of territory, from Bremen in the north, to Otranto in the south, and Orleans in the west, with some raiding expeditions reaching over the Pyrenees Mountains into Iberia.

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📢 Narrated by David McCallion

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📚 Sources:
The Complete Works of Luidprand of Cremona. Transl by Paolo Squatriti. The Catholic University of America Press, Washington D.C., 2007
Reuter, Timothy. Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056. (1991)
Balasz, György, and Karoly Szelényi. The Magyars: The Birth of a European Nation (1989)
Bóna, István. The Hungarians and Europe in the 9th-10th centuries (2000)

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  1. 🥏 Visit https://80000hours.org/historymarche and start planning a career that is meaningful, fulfilling, and helps solve one of the world’s most pressing problems. Make your 80,000 hours count.

    🚩 "Deliver us, O Lord, from the arrows of the Hungarians" – A hymn from Modena, Italy c.900 AD. Brenta was one of the earliest battles of the Magyar invasions of Europe. Between 860 and 970, the Magyars were the scourge of Europe. They devastated and pillaged a wide swath of territory, from Bremen in the north, to Otranto in the south, and Orleans in the west, with some raiding expeditions reaching over the Pyrenees Mountains into Iberia.

  2. King Berengar made two huge mistakes. The first is that he ignored the reports about the way the Magyars responded during the skirmish with his vanguard. He should have found a response for the enemy tactics before going into battle. The second was not having night patrols and scouts, to detect the enemy deployment. Adding to those huge mistakes, his handling of the actual battle was cowardly, had he mustered the troops and organised the fight inside the camp, he could probably have saved the day. A bad leader that doomed his army…

  3. There are a lot of parallels between battles of Brenta and Mohi (in which Mongols defeated the Hungarians) .. fording the river upstream and downstream at night, taking the overconfident opposition by surprise, use of horse archers to counter slow moving heavy cavalry and infantry, etc.

  4. I just stumbled upon this channel and I am really enjoying those videos. Nicely animated and a nice pace of bringing the content forward. And your voice for the narration is fantastic. Have you had professional training in narration? It sounds like the kind of narration I would expect to hear from a commercial production like walking with dinosaurs or other such documentaries.
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  5. What a load of rubbish, as the Magyars are related to the Avars and prior to that the Huns and Samartians, who had similar battle tactics, all related Nomad horse archer tribes of Pannonia, you make out that the Lombard's never new of this type of army, so novice and biased these western English masonic historians.

  6. 6:20 You sound like you agree with him to ally himself with these pagans.
    Being a Christian was about following Christ and being an example of how to live.
    But they have taken that and turned it into an abomination.
    Killing each other as they squabble over land.
    Now he invites pagans to do his dirty work for him.
    These kingdoms are no better than the pagans they claim to fight against.
    In a way, he is worse, as he knows better but commits this evil anyway.

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