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Lipany, Battle of

Years: 1434 - 1434

The Battle of Lipany or Lipan, also called the Battle of Český Brod, is fought at Lipany forty kilometers east of Prague on May 30, 1434 and virtually ends the Hussite Wars.

An army of Utraquist nobility and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeats the radical Taborites and Orphans (or Sirotčí) led by Prokop the Great, the overall commander, and by Jan Čapek of Sány, the cavalry commander.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)