02-16-2012, 09:55 PM
It is extremely unlikely that they had a million men, simply because there is absolutely no reason to bring a force 20 times larger than a huge army by the day's measures. Not for invading a bunch of disunited city states. Let's be serious here - no one believes sources saying that Christians defeated hundreds of thousands of muslims at every juncture. No one believes Ottoman propaganda about slaughtering 100 thousand Serbs at Varna.
If sources were true, we can learn only one thing: the only way to win a battle is to be outnumbered.
If sources were true, we can learn only one thing: the only way to win a battle is to be outnumbered.
