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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.

“Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce”

― Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire...(1852)