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Battle Tactics of the Hussites in the 15th century

The Hussites, also known as the Taborites, became a formidable fighting force in the early fifteenth-century under the leadership of Jan Ziska (d.1424).  In the following two accounts, the first by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later to be Pope Pius II), … Continue reading

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