I will be continuing the “Attack on Poland” series afterwards, but I decided to write this since next installment of the series is taking too long.

Hungarian

• 10 000 – 15 000 troops (The Long March 1443 – 1444)
• 16 000 troops (~15 000 cavalry, few hundred handgunners, plus wagon crews) (Hungarian army during Varna campaign, 1444)
• 5 000 cavalry, 4 000 infantry (army that Miklos Ujlaki led to camp in 1447)
• 1 000 cavalry, 500 infantry (Hungarian raiding party, 1447)
• 8 000 cavalry (army that John Hunyadi took to Serbia in 1451)
• 15 000 cavalry (army of Matthias Corvinus in 1458)
• 2 000 cavalry, 1 000 infantry (Mihaylo Szilagy’s army in 1458)
• 14 000 cavalry, 5 000 infantry (army of Matthias Corvinus during Jajce campaign in 1463)
• 17 000 cavalry, 6 000 infantry, 7 000 crusaders (army of Matthias Corvinus during campaign in Bosnia in 1464)
• 10 000 Hungarian heavy cavalry, 4 000 Hungarian infantry (pavise crossbowmen), 6 000 foreign heavy cavalry, 10 000 foreign infantry (Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian – Black Army?) (Matthias’ army during Siege of Šabac, 1476)
• 20 000 cavalry, 8 000 foot (army of King Matthias in 1487)
• 2 000 light cavalry, 2 000 foot, 50 men-at-arms (army of Janos Tarcai led to Jajce in ???)
• 6 000 cavalry, 6 000 infantry (army sent against Habsburg supporters south of Sava, 1491)
• 4 000 light cavalry, 2 000 infantry (army of bans of Croatia sent against Frankapans, fought against Ottomans at Battle of Krbava 1493)
• 10 000 light cavalry (force sent to raid Ottoman Serbia, 1494)
• 4 000 heavy cavalry, 6 000 light cavalry (army gathered against Ottomans in 1500 – no battle)
• 10 000 cavalry, 6 000 infantry, 1200 wagons, 32 cannons (assembly at Tolna, 1501)
• 5 000 cavalry (Hungarian raiding force in 1501)
  • total force in 1501: 20 000 cavalry, 7 000 foot
• six light cavalry for one man-at-arms and one wagon (account of Venetian envoy of campaign in 1501-2)
• 7 000 cavalry (September 1502)
• 3 500 cavalry, 600 infantry (abortive 1512 campaign, western army, eventual strength 8 000)
• 1 000 cavalry, 1 000 infantry (Ban Beriszlo’s raid, autumn 1514)
• 3 590 cavalry, 400 infantry, 1 100 boatmen (garrison of southeastern defensive line of Hungary in 1510s)
• 1 657 cavalry, 770 infantry (garrison of Croatian Marches, 1510s)
• 5 000 cavalry, 2 000 infantry (Szapolyai’s campaign in Wallachia 1522)
• 500 heavy cavalry (loaned from Ferdinand Habsburg), 1 300 light cavalry, 4 000 infantry (Krsto Frankopan’s Jajce campaign in 1525)
• 3 000 heavy cavalry, 4 500 light cavalry, 6 700 infantry, 5 300 papal infantry, 1 500 Polish infantry (Battle of Mohacs 1526 – figures incomplete; 21 000 counted troops, 25 000 actual total)

Ottoman

• 16 000 light cavalry (Mezid Bey’s raiding party, 1442)
• 30 000 – 35 000 sipahis (heavy cavalry), 10 000 infantry (Ottoman army at Battle of Varna, 1444)
• 7 000 cavalry (raiding party against Slavonia in 1458)
• 8 000 cavalry (Ali Bey’s raiding party against Hungary in 1458)
• 5 000 cavalry (raiding force of Ali Bey of Smederevo, 1476)
• 60 000 troops (?) (Ottoman Army assembled in October 1476)
• <20 000 cavalry (Ottoman raiding force, 1479)
• 12 000 cavalry (raiding force against Croatia, 1491)
• 8 000 cavalry (Ottoman raiding force against Croatia, 1493. – fought the Battle of Krbava)
• 4 000 cavalry, 3 000 footmen (raiding party 1502)
  • 1 000 cavalry split off?
• 1 500 light cavalry (raiding party, February 1514)
• 4 000 troops (raiding party, autumn 1514)
• 1 000 light cavalry (raiding party, October 1519)
• 50 000 Sipahis, 12 000 Janissaries, 2 000 artillerymen (Battle of Mohacs 1526)

Since most of these armies were involved in raids, it is almost certain that cavalry noted here is light cavalry, unless otherwise noted.

• medieval
• Ottoman Wars