7 June 1424
The charge and the pursuit
Žižka’s foot charge down the slope behind the wagons, and the head of the Prague column turns and flees back across the brook. The fugitives carry the rear of the army with them, and the horse, held back on the wings until now, ride after them past the fortress. The Praguers leave all their wagons and guns on the field.
The battle of Malešov, by Věnceslav Černý for a novel about Žižka, 1925Wikimedia Commons, Věnceslav Černý, Public domain (Image from the battle of Malešov (novel Jan Žižkal, 1925).png)
Bartošek of Drahonice gives 1,400 dead on both sides, among them 326 householders of Prague, and Aeneas Silvius 3,000 Praguers. Among the dead is Petr Turkovec, who carried the banner of Prague, and the Old Czech Annals also name Žižka’s son-in-law Ondřej of Dubá, who fought for Prague. Right after the battle Žižka takes Kutná Hora and sets it on fire, and in the following days Kouřim, Český Brod and Nymburk, towns of the Prague union, submit to him without a fight.
The Italian Court, the royal mint of Kutná Hora, with the church of St JamesWikimedia Commons, Palickap, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Kutná Hora, Vlašský dvůr a kostel sv. Jakuba.jpg)
Sources
- Bartošek of Drahonice, Chronicle, in Ze zpráv a kronik doby husitské (1981), p. 233.
- Ze starých letopisů českých (1980), p. 139.
- František Šmahel, Husitská revoluce 3: Kronika válečných let (1996), p. 150.
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