Note (1) — 1.—Of the first combat between King Sigmund and the Turks.

(1.) “Then came many people from all countries to help him.“—The army of King Sigismund, made up of contingents from various states, consisted of about 100,000 men at the siege of Nicopolis, 60,000 being horsemen. An Eastern writer has estimated the number of fighting men at 130,000 (Aschbach, Gesch. K. Sigmunds, i, 101, Saad-eddin, Bratutti edition). In his narrative of the action, Bonfinius (Rer. Hung. Decad. III., ii, 403) repeats the proud boast of the king of Hungary, that not only should he turn the Turks out of Europe, but were the sky itself to fall, he was prepared to support it on the points of his lances.—Ed.