HIST 3840 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Standing Army
17 Jan 2017
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Osmon (~5000 soldiers) defeats the byzantine (2000 soldiers) Following this they begin caressing the countryside choking the supply lines to the major byzantine cities because they weren"t capable of taking the cities. Initially the byzantine weren"t too alarmed at their country sides being seized by this group. Osmon dies in 1324 his son goes on to continue occupying land and controlling territory. When osmon defeats the byzantines, word got out about this. Byzantines start to pay attention by orhan"s reign because they keep taking more territory eventually they surrender and the first ottoman capital is created. Preferred fighting style of the nomads were mounted archers but by orhan"s reign, they began using infantry which was new. What do we think of christian participation in ottoman gaza if this is a religious. They wanted to paint a good picture of themselves in their histories. Early period ottoman historians have to rely upon accounts by outsides or later projections backward onto history.
