600 years ago, on Sunday, June 16, 1426, the united Hussite armies, led for the first time by Prokop the Holy, defeated the numerically stronger mercenary army of the Saxon Duke Frederick I the Quarrelsome at Ústí nad Labem. The victory allowed the Hussites to take control of northern Bohemia and secure themselves against the upcoming Third Crusade. They burned and razed the city itself, so it later had to be rebuilt from the ground up.
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600 years ago, on Sunday, June 16, 1426, the united Hussite armies, led for the first time by Prokop the Holy, defeated the numerically stronger mercenary army of the Saxon Duke Frederick I the Quarrelsome at Ústí nad Labem. The victory allowed the Hussites to take control of northern Bohemia and secure themselves against the upcoming Third Crusade. They burned and razed the city itself, so it later had to be rebuilt from the ground up.