Hussites

The back of the hussites was protected by a swamp.

Avowed Hussites stood at the head of the government.

The Hussites seized Nimptsch in 1430 and held the town for several years.

Ambrož was a representative of the more moderate Hussites, who called themselves orphans.

Given its pub life, lunar esthetes and wild-eyed Hussites, viewers may need some explanation.

Depending on the terrain, Hussites prepared carts for the battle, forming them into squares or circles.

Only 400 hussites - farmers and townsmen, including women and children - beat the 2,000-strong force of heavily armoured cavalry.

Hans von Kotzau fought against the hussites at Wunsiedel in 1430.

Luher, Hus et les hussites, in Questions de civilisation.

Towards the end of the fourteenth century, the abbey was repeatedly plundered, especially in 1426, when 4,000 Hussites sacked and burned it down.

In spite of the departure of many prominent Hussites, the troubles at Prague continued.

Hussites and Turks influence customs.

When a crusade was launched at Bohemia, moderate and radical Hussites would unite and defeat it.

Vytautas accepted it, with the condition that the Hussites reunite with the Catholic Church.

He was also heavily influenced by the views of Bohemian Hussites, who supported modesty, life in poverty and disregard for mundane life.

A settlement of hussites in Herrnhut, Germany, in 1727 caused the emergence of the Moravian Church.

Later on in the same evening two hussites absconded through a breach in his bylaws and left him, the infidels, to pay himself off in kind remembrances.

After Hus's death, his followers, then known as Hussites, split off into several groups including the Utraquists, Taborites and Orphans.

He sent threatening letters to Bohemia declaring that he would shortly drown all Wycliffites and Hussites, greatly incensed the people.

In the 15th century the Spessart was a wild and unexploited virgin forest, used for hideout by bandits and Hussites, who despoiled the regions nearby.

There might have been some Hussites on his side as he enlisted his nephew Sigismund Korybut, a distinguished military leader during the Hussite Wars.

The feast of the Our Lady of Sorrows was originated by a provincial synod of Cologne in 1413 as a response to the iconoclast Hussites.

Similar army camps were also built, notably one on the mountain of Oreb, where another group of radical Hussites established themselves, and became known as the Orebici (Orebites).

The hussites defeated four crusades from Holy Roman Empire and the movement is also viewed by many Czechs as a part of the (worldwide) Protestant Reformation.

Another purpose of the edict was to warn citizens of Poland that any contacts with Hussites were to be punished as an offence against the dignity of the King.