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Topic: Frankenhausen, Battle of
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Frankenhausen, Battle of

Years: 1525 - 1525

The Battle of Frankenhausen is fought on May 15, 1525.

It is the final act of the German Peasants' War: joint troops of Landgrave Philip I of Hesse and Duke George of Saxony defeat the peasants under their leader Thomas Müntzer near Frankenhausen in the County of Schwarzburg.

"Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever. For what is the time of a man except it be interwoven with that memory of ancient things of a superior age?"

― Marcus Tullius Cicero, Orator (46 BCE)