Prince Eugene decided to take advantage of the situation and called for an attack. He set out through the marshes of the Danube and Tisza. At the Battle of Zenta, he scattered the Turkish army, triggering the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
The Battle of Borodino began at 6.30am on 7 September 1812, when Napoleon ordered his artillery to open fire. Of all the battles he had fought so far, this was the bloodiest and most ferocious.
Jan Roháč of Dubá belonged to the followers of the radical Hussite movement of the Taborites. In early September 1437 he was captured and executed in Prague on Old Town Square. Of the Gothic castle of Sion, only modest remains of the castle palace and walls have survived.
The Western Roman Empire ended in 476 when the last Roman emperor, Romulus Augustus, was crushed by the Visigothic invasion of Italy. It existed for 503 years and 6 months. Rome became a forgotten city in a forgotten land.
Twenty thousand soldiers died in the Napoleonic battle of Chlumec in 1813. The arrival of the Prussians with General Kleist was decisive and the French were defeated. The battlefield was littered with corpses.
During the campaign through Germany, Napoleon's troops also clashed with the enemy at Dresden. The clash lasted two days on 26 and 27 August 1813. France won, losing ten thousand men.
Rudolf, in an attempt to humble his rival, provoked another conflict. The decisive clash took place on 26 August 1278 on the Moravian Field in Lower Austria. King Přemysl Otakar II died in battle.
The only ally willing to join his fate in 1619 with the Bohemian uprising was the twenty-three-year-old Calvinist Elector Frederick V. Falck. He succeeded Ferdinand II, who had been deposed by the rebellious Bohemian Estates.
On August 15, 1812, the situation looked as if the enemy had indeed been stopped at Smolensk, forced into a decisive battle and destroyed. Over the next two days, 150,000 men of the Grand Army fought against 120,000 Russians.
The Battle of Domažlice became one of the most famous and one of the last Hussite victories. Cardinal Cesarini fled the battle disguised as a mere soldier.