Hungary’s National Hero

"On July 22 a handful of emboldened crusaders made their way through the partly demolished walls. Exchanging insults with the Ottomans, their numbers grew. Capistrano got caught up in the growing furor and incited the masses to attack. Hunyadi sallied forth to join the confused melee. The fighting lasted until dusk. “Even the dead climbed out of the breaches in the wall, swarmed out of the fortress and fell upon the army of Islam,” wrote Ottoman historian Tursun Bey. Both sides drew apart, but the Turks knew they were beaten and retreated."