I think about Crusades a lot because that’s my job. I also think about them a lot because, well, there were a lot of them – which is pretty wild when you consider they didn’t exist as a pheno…| Going Medieval
The Hussites, also known as the Taborites, became a formidable fighting force in the early fifteenth-century under the leadership of Jan Ziska (d.1424). In the following two accounts, the first by Enea Silvio Piccolomini (later to be Pope Pius II), from his Historia Bohemorum, and the second found in the Commentarii od Alponsum regum, show how the Hussites used wagons to gain victory.| De Re Militari