![]() ![]() He exploited geographic features to the full and maintained good discipline in his armies. In addition to training and equipping his army according to their abilities, he used armored wagons fitted with small cannons and muskets, anticipating the tank of five hundred years later. Žižka's tactics were unorthodox and innovative. The effectiveness of his field artillery against the royal cavalry in this battle made it a successful element of Hussite armies. In the Battle of Kutná Hora (1421) he defeated the army of the Holy Roman Empire and the Hungarian Kingdom. He led the Hussites during the first important clashes of this conflict in the Battle of Sudoměř (1420) and in the Battle of Vítkov Hill (1420). Later he played a prominent role in the civil wars in Bohemia. He fought in the Battle of Grunwald (15 July 1410), where he defended Radzyń against the Teutonic Order. According to Piccolomini's Historia Bohemica, he had some connections with the royal court from his youth, and later held the office of Chamberlain to Queen Sofia of Bavaria. He was born in the small village of Trocnov in the Kingdom of Bohemia into a family from the Czech nobility. Jan Žižka led Hussite forces against three crusades and never lost a single battle despite being completely blind in his last stages of life. He was nicknamed "One-eyed Žižka", having lost one and then both eyes. Žižka was a successful military leader and is now a Czech national hero. 1360 – 11 October 1424) was a Czech general – a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and a Radical Hussite who led the Taborites. Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English: John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice c. ![]() He gave the biblical name of Chalice (Kalich in Czech) to this new possession ![]()
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