The Battle of Nicopolis, 1396. The Christian crusader army of knights in armour is routed by the Muslim Ottoman forces. Costumes of the Turks taken from an oriental manuscript history of Tamerlane. Woodcut after an illuminated manuscript from Sir John Froissart's Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries, from the Latter Part of the Reign of Edward II to the Coronation of Henry IV, George Routledge, London, 1868.

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