Crusaders besiege Prague - Battle of Vitkov Hill, 1420 - Hussite Wars -

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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 www.bellum.cz/...
Robert Bideleux & Ian Jeffries - A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change www.routledge....
Stephen Turnbull & Angus McBride - The Hussite Wars 1419-36 www.ospreypubl...
Thomas A. Fudge - The Crusade Against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437 - Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades www.routledge....
Diarmaid MacCulloch - A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years www.amazon.com...
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