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.
