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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.

"We cannot be certain of being right about the future; but we can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past."

—G. K. Chesterton, What I Saw in America (1922)