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17: 123:, in which his forces were defeated. Radical Hussite priests called for the Imperial corpses to rot on the field for three days, but the army of the Prague Hussites ignored it. The castle was sacked and on June 21, 1421, Hradcany Castle was also taken by the Prague Hussites and similarly ransacked. 111:
faction, only sent forty horsemen. The Prague Hussites then completely surrounded the castle except for the cliffside by the river, which forced the garrison to agree to surrender if their lack of supplies persisted and
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castle, which was held by Czech and German Imperial knights. They established a military camp on a nearby hill and engaged in artillery duels with the Vyšehrad garrison. Imperial troops from nearby
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in support of the besieged Vyšehrad garrison. The Prague Hussites sent out a call for aid, which resulted in thousands of Hussite reinforcements coming from
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the city militia fought under this banner. Later banner was captured by Swedish troops in 1649 and placed in the Royal Military Museum in Stockholm
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Sigismund arrived at noon, October 31 and found that the castle had already surrendered. He initiated the
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The Prague Hussites included primarily Bohemian nobility and merchants as opposed to the
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Patron Saint and Prophet: Jan Hus in the Bohemian and German Reformations
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Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City
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did not arrive to relieve them by October 31, 9 AM.
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Index


Hussite Wars
Czech
Czech
Moderate Hussites
Prague
Kingdom of Bohemia
Hussite Wars
Hynek Krušina of Lichtenburg
Vyšehrad
Hradcany Castle
Old Town of Prague
Hradec Králové
Louny
Žatec
Tábor
Taborites
Radical Hussite
Emperor Sigismund
Battle of Vyšehrad
Taborites
Orebites
Hussite Wars


Demetz, Peter
Prague in Black and Gold: Scenes from the Life of a European City
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9781429930642

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