26/48 Ulaszlo left a son, Lajos the Second, born without skin, as it is said, certainly without a head. He, contrary to the advice of all his wise counsellors--and amongst them was Batory Stephen, who became eventually King of Poland--engaged, with twenty five thousand men, at Mohacs, Soliman the Turk, who had an army of two hundred thousand. Drak! the Magyars were annihilated, King Lajos disappeared with his heavy horse and armour in a bog. We call that battle, which was fought on the 29th of August 1526, the destruction of Mohacs, but it was the destruction of Hungary. You have twice used the word drak; what is the meaning of it? |