Crusaders besiege Prague – Battle of Vitkov Hill, 1420 – Hussite Wars – @HistoryMarche
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🚩 Today we examine the Battle of Vitkov Hill, fought in 1420 outside the city walls of Prague, amidst a series of crusades against the Hussites, who were a Czech proto-Protestant movement. Just one year before, in 1419, the Pope declared a crusade against them, and the Holy Roman Empire organized forces to wipe them out. Easier said than done…
📢 Narrated by David McCallion
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📚 Sources:
RNDr. et PhDr. Aleš Nováček, Ph.D. – Battles of Vítkov Hill and Vyšehrad https://www.bellum.cz/en/battles-of-vitkov-hill-and-vysehrad.html
Robert Bideleux & Ian Jeffries – A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change https://www.routledge.com/A-History-of-Eastern-Europe-Crisis-and-Change/Bideleux-Jeffries/p/book/9780415366274#
Stephen Turnbull & Angus McBride – The Hussite Wars 1419-36 https://www.ospreypublishing.com/us/hussite-wars-141936-9781841766652/
Thomas A. Fudge – The Crusade Against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437 – Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades https://www.routledge.com/The-Crusade-against-Heretics-in-Bohemia-1418-1437-Sources-and-Documents/Fudge/p/book/9781032180199
Diarmaid MacCulloch – A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years https://www.amazon.com/Christianity-First-Three-Thousand-Years/dp/0143118692
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🚩 Today we examine the Battle of Vitkov Hill, fought in 1420 outside the city walls of Prague, amidst a series of crusades against the Hussites, who were a Czech proto-Protestant movement. Just one year before, in 1419, the Pope declared a crusade against them, and the Holy Roman Empire organized forces to wipe them out. Easier said than done…
Im afraid that Katowice didnt exist in 15th century.
Happy 1 million!
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"with an eye for reading the terrain" lmao
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I am blad that someone finally makes a videos about my country. And from the most famous history in our times
This is amazing!
love your channel, watched so much
14:15 – Orava river is about 400km further East from Sudoměř in recent Slovakia (with famous Orava Castle above it)
The river in in the territory mentioned is named Otava.
For the algorithm
Funny enough, i first saw the cannon waggons in total war warhammer and was astounded that they were not a new invention but 500 jears old tanks.
Love it tyvm!😀