Bridge Collapse and Vizier's Demise #BattleOfZenta #PrinceEugene #OttomanEmpire #HabsburgEmpire

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[00:00:00]And on the West Bank, the camp was already in chaos.

[00:00:03]Men streaming from the tents toward the bridge, a bridge already clogged with carts and horses, and panicked soldiers trying to cross in the wrong direction.

[00:00:23]The bridge broke.

[00:00:24]We do not know the exact moment.

[00:00:29]Silahdar, the Ottoman court chronicler who was there, writes that the boats parted and the planking collapsed under the weight of retreating men and falling horses.

[00:00:38]And the Tisza carried them downstream in the dying light.

[00:00:41]What we do know is that with the bridge gone, the soldiers in the earthworks understood they were not going home.

[00:00:48]And then inside the earthworks, the Janissaries turned on their commander.

[00:00:52]Silahdar names him, Grand Vizier Elmas Mehmed Pasha, the man who had ordered the crossing, the man who had chosen the direction, the man the soldiers held responsible for leaving them on the wrong bank.

[00:01:05]They cut him down with their own yatagans, the short curved swords they carried at their belts.

[00:01:10]The Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire died inside his own crescent of earthworks by the hands of the elite infantry of the Sultan's own army, minutes before the imperial storm arrived.

[00:01:25]He was not the only one.