The Raven That Made a King

In the mid-1400s, no one in Hungary had a bigger target on his back than János Hunyadi. He was the greatest military commander the kingdom had ever seen — the man who stopped the Ottoman Empire from swallowing Central Europe. That kind of power made powerful enemies. Nobles plotted against him constantly. Assassins were a real and regular threat. So when he rode out on campaign in 1443, he made a small decision that would accidentally set the stage for one of history's strangest legends.