Battle of Posada: Wallachia Defeats Hungary in the Carpathian Pass
Four days. That's all it took for Basarab I to destroy a Hungarian royal army in a mountain pass. Charles I Robert marched into Wallachia expecting submission — he'd already rejected Basarab's peace offerings, including 7,000 silver marks. Bad call. Wallachian fighters rained arrows and boulders from above, shredding Hungarian formations below. Charles reportedly escaped in a borrowed disguise. And what looked like a minor border skirmish? It effectively guaranteed Wallachian independence for generations, proving small principalities could bleed empires dry from the high ground.
November 9, 1330
696 years ago
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