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| Reconstruction drawing of the fort from 1790 by Imperial engineers |
The siege
of Szabács in 1476 was part of the propaganda King Mathias I Hunyadi of Hungary
tried to convince the Western courts with, in terms of taking the Ottoman
threat seriously. However, during all his reign, Mathias had the idea of
Western conquest, and despite two sieges (Jajca in 1465 and Szabács in 1476)
and destroying the invasion at Kenyérmező in 1479, he did not take any actions
against the Turk territories on the Balkan: how wrong even the idea to attack was
had been proven in the campaigns led by his father, János Hunyadi and King
Vladislaus I of House Jagiello who lost his life at Varna in 1444, but we can
also take the earlier example of King Sigismund of Luxembourg who, despite
having an allied Crusader army of French and German knights, still lost the
battle of Nicopolis in 1396 (although mostly due to his lack of military skill and not being informed how the French fight, but that is another story).
