John Hunyadi

""To escape is impossible, to surrender unthinkable. Let us fight with honor and defend our arms.""

- badassoftheweek.com/. John Hunyadi was a Hungarian and political figure in Central and Souhteastern Europe during the 15th century. According to many contemporary sources, he was the son of a noble family of Romanian ancestry. He mastered his military skills on the southern borderlands of Southern Hungary that was exposed to Ottoman attacks.Appointed voivode of Transylvania and a head of other numerous other counties, he assumed responsibility of the defense of the frontiers in 1441. Hunyadi adopted the Hussite method of of using wagons for military purposes.

The Ottomans had occupied the larger part of Serbia by the end of 1438. In the same year, Ottoman troops--supported by Vlad II Dracul, Prince of Wallachia, made an incursion into Transylvania, plummeting Hermannstadt,Gyulafehervar(Alba Iulia, Romania)and other towns. Hunyad's victories in 1441 and 1442 made him a prominent enemy of the Ottoman and renowned throughout Christendom. He established a vigorous offensive posture in his battles, which enabled him to counteract numerical superiority of the Ottoman through decisive maneuver.

A plague had broken out and killed many people in the crusaders' camp, Hunyadi was also taken ill and died near Zimony (Zemun, Serbia) on 11 August 1456. He was buried at St. Michaels Cathedral in Gyulafehervar.