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Battle of Lipany

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Battle of Lipany

The Battle of Lipany or Lipan, also called the Battle of Česky Brod, was fought at Lipany 40 km east of Prague on 30 May 1434 and virtually ended the Hussite Wars. An army of Utraquist nobility and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeated the radical Taborites and Orphans (or Sirotčí) led by Prokop the Great, the overall commander, and by Jan Čapek of Sány, the cavalry commander.

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