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The Knights of the Cross, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint)
The Knights of the Cross Vol 1 of 2 - Classic Reprint Author:Henryk Sienkiewicz INTRODUCTION. THE period embraced in "The Knights of the Cross" is one of the most dramatic and fruitful of results in European annals, - a period remarkable for work and endeavor, especially in the Slav world. Among Western Slavs the great events were the Hussite wars and the union of Lithuania and Poland. The Hussite wars were caused by ideas ... more »of race and religion which were born in Bohemia. These ideas produced results which, beyond doubt, were among the most striking in European experience. The period of Bohemian activity began in 1403 and ended in 1434, the year of the battle of Lipan, which closed the Bohemian epoch. The marriage in 1386 of Queen Yadviga to Yagello, Grand Prince of Lithuania, brought Poland into intimate relations with all the regions owing allegiance to the Lithuanian dynasty, and made it possible to crush at Tanl1enberg the Knights of the Cross, whose object was the subjection of Poland and Lithuania, and a boundless extension of German inf
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