Eugene's Bold Decision: Ignoring Orders, Winning Battles #BattleOfZenta #PrinceEugene #Habsburgs

Hinzugefügt: 2026-06-03

[00:00:00]Eugene did not open the order.

[00:00:02]He asked to Kelya to guide the army south through the marshes and he gave the order to march.

[00:00:07]The Imperial army moved. 55,000 men, [clears throat] 14,000 horses, 40 guns across 20 kilometers of flat Panonian plain in the heat of a September [music] afternoon in a forced march that left stragglers for miles.

[00:00:23]The Hussars rode ahead. The Cuirassiers clattered in the center.

[00:00:27]The infantry [music] half ran.

[00:00:29]At 4:00 in the afternoon, the leading column saw the Ottoman [music] earthworks and beyond them the bridge and beyond the bridge the Sultan's army already on the eastern bank unable to return.

[00:00:46]Subscribe for more chronicles. Leave your verdict below. [music] Eugene deployed on the march.

[00:00:54]Infantry in the center, cavalry on both wings. The Serbian militia and Hungarian Hussars screening and skirmishing.

[00:01:02]He did not wait for darkness. He did not wait for the baggage [music] and the heavier guns.

[00:01:07]At 5:00 in the afternoon with perhaps 2 hours of daylight remaining, he ordered the general advance.

[00:01:13]On the Imperial left, Carl Thomas of Vaudemont led the Cuirassiers [music] and the Serbian light horse in a wheeling charge around the northern end of the Ottoman crescent.

[00:01:22]They drove straight [music] for the river, for the bridgehead.

[00:01:26]On the Imperial right,