1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
08. The writers who have left the most complete and trustworthy contemporary accounts of the Turkish army in the 1 4th and isth centuries, when it reached the height of its most characteristic development, are Bertrandon de la Brocquiire, equerry to Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy, and Francesco Filelfo of Tolentino. Bertrandon, a professional soldier, visited Palestine in 1432, and returned overland in 1433, traversing the Balkan Peninsula by the main trade-route from Constantinople to Belgrade. He wrote an acco…
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