Suleiman the Magnificent (part 2): Two Hours at Mohacs

Suleiman the Magnificent inherited the richest and best organized state of the sixteenth century, and in his first campaigns he took the fortresses that had defied even Mehmed the Conqueror. This episode, the second in our series, follows him to the two battles that defined the peak of Ottoman power in Europe. On the twenty-ninth of August, fifteen twenty-six, on the marshy plain of Mohacs, the young King Louis the Second of Hungary rode out with the finest heavy cavalry in Christendom. Sulei...