Battle of Mies
The Battle of Mies , also the Battle of Tachau , was fought on August 4, 1427 near the Bohemian cities of Stříbro and Tachov .
It was one of the most important battles in the history of Bohemia during the Hussite Wars of the 15th century , was under the command of Andreas Prokop the Great and was the first battle in which the army of the Crusaders under Cardinal Henry Beaufort , Bishop of Winchester, and Friedrich I (Brandenburg) of Hohenzollern used wagon castles .
On the side of the Roman Catholic army, according to an unknown source, eighty thousand horsemen, eighty thousand foot soldiers and a thousand English archers are said to have been drawn together to attack in order to advance from the Upper Palatinate to Bohemia. The battle showed that the fighting technique with wagon castles, supported by a powerful baggage train , could not be used successfully by every army, but required an army that knew how to use the wagons successfully in attacks and defenses.
The Catholic troops were decimated in the fight against the Taborite general Andreas Prokop during the battle. Cardinal Beaufort and the rest of the troops struggled to escape west over the Bohemian Forest passes . In Bärnau near Tirschenreuth , Johann (Pfalz-Neumarkt) von Wittelsbach stopped a chasing mercenary troop. The battle in 1427 between Mies and Tachau in western Bohemia ended the fourth crusade during the Hussite Wars . No more crusades were undertaken for the next four years.
literature
- Lillian Schacherl (Ed.): Bohemia. Cultural image of a landscape. Prestel, Munich 1966, pp. 111-113, (Chapter battles in the name of God. ).