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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  1. 🚩 Try Opera browser FOR FREE here: https://opr.as/Opera-browser-HistoryMarche

    🚩 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…

  2. If only your extensive research would have led you to look up the correct English pronunciation for Jan Hus on wikipedia. You would have found that it's Hus as in "bush".

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