The Hussite Wars (
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The Battle of Lipany or Lipan, also called the Battle of Ceský Brod, was fought at Lipany 40 km east of Prague on 30 May 1434 and virtually ended the Hussite Wars. An army of Utraquist nobility and Catholics, called the Bohemian League, defeated the radical Taborites and Orphans (or Sirotcí) led by Prokop the Great, the overall commander, and by Jan Capek of Sány, the cavalry commander.
The radicals set up a Wagenburg (
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Thinking that the enemy was fleeing, the radicals' commanders opened the Wagenburg to attack the Leaguers' formation. As the radicals approached the Leaguers' army, the Leaguers stopped and began to fire from their wagons. At the same time, the Leaguers' heavy cavalry, which had been hidden near the radicals' camp, undertook a surprise attack from the side and penetrated into the open Wagenburg. The radicals' army quickly collapsed and the battle now changed into a massacre of the lightly equipped radical forces.
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Každorocní akce k pripomenutí výrocí poslední velké husitské bitvy. Jako tradicne se akce odehrála na autentickém míste - na Lipanské hore u mohyly/památníku na bitvu.
Samotné rekonstrukce se zúcastnily cca dve stovky ozbrojencu v dobové výstroji a s dobovými zbranemi. Kulisu boje doplnovaly repliky husitských vozu.
Pro diváky byl pripraven bohatý doprovodný program (remeslné tržište, rytírské souboje, výklad a ukázka použití tehdejších palných zbraní, dobové tance a stredoveká hudba, apod.).