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	Jan Žižka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English: John Zizka of Trocnov, German: Johann Ziska or Johann Schischka) (c.
		Zizka, who was at the head of the united armies of Tábor and Prague, at first retreated to Kolín, but after having received reinforcements he attacked and defeated Sigismund's army at the village of Nebovidy between Kolín and Kutná Hora (January 6, 1422).
		Zizka was such a well respected general that when he died, his soldiers called themselves the Orphands because they felt like they had lost their father.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Zizka (1290 words)

	Zizka, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Before the Hussite Wars, which gave his military genius the opportunity to develop fully, Zizka served under various lords; he fought (1410) on the Polish side in the battle of Tannenberg, in which the Teutonic Knights were defeated.
		Having joined the Taborites (the radical Hussite wing), Zizka made Tábor in Bohemia into an almost impregnable fortress and led (July, 1420) the Taborite troops in their victory over Sigismund at Visehrad (now a part of Prague).
		Zizka did not attempt to make them adopt the conventional armament and tactics of the time, but let them make use of such weapons as iron-tipped flails and armored farm wagons, surmounted by small cannons of the howitzer type.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/Z/Zizka-Jo.asp (509 words)

	Jan Zizka - 23-02-2000 - Radio Prague
		Jan Zizka then returned to Prague and became a minor official at the king's court, and also served one of the wealthier nobles at the court.
		Jan Hus's preaching for church reform, especially concerning the wealth of the church, caused outrage in the Catholic Church, and many claimed he was a heretic.
		Jan Zizka died suddenly of the plague in 1424.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/37448 (1517 words)

	Jan Zizka
		Jan's support for the Hus beliefs was apparantly vocal as it lost him the ear of the King, of whom he was once one of his favourites.
		Jan Zizka led the storming of Pragues town hall in 1419 and after the death of King Wenceslas took a key role in the organising of armed resistance against forces loyal to the Emperor Sigismund.
		Zizka was responsible for the innovative wagon tactics that served the Hussite cause well over the following years.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /matthaywood/main/Jan_Zizka.htm (394 words)

	Hussite Battle Tactics and Organisation
		It was Jan Zizka, possibly drawing on his experiences as a mercenary in Poland who developed new and highly effective strategies and tactics to combat this threat.
		As a result Jan Zizka had a large pool of reliable manpower at his disposal, the combined resources of all the participants, the political authority to carry out his reforms and initially significant amounts of money and jewels looted from the Church properties.
		Jan Zizka was able to impose discipline and training that would have been impossible to enforce on the more traditional feudal host of the time.
	myweb.tiscali.co.uk /matthaywood/main/Hussite_Tactics_and_Organisation.htm (2612 words)

	Battle of Vyšehrad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In December 1419, one of these formations under the command of Jan Žižka was surprised by Catholic forces under the command of Bohuslav of Švamberk.
		In August 1420, Hetman Jan Žižka left Prague with relief forces and headed to Písek, which was in danger from crusaders under the command of Oldřich from Rožmberk.
		In January 1421, Taborite forces, under command of Jan Žižka and Chval from Machovice, captured the town of Stříbro and cloister in Krakikov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Vysehrad (1076 words)

	Jan Hus and Jan Zizka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jan Hus, Jan Zizka and the hussite wars 1420-1434.
		Jan Zizka, though a Lord, was their General.
		Jan Zizka died in 1424, but his successor, the taborite Andrew Prokop (1380-1434) was as skilled as Zizka.
	felix2.no-ip.org /english/hussitee.html (1444 words)

	TABOR - Czech Republic Travel Information & Photos, HOTELS IN TABOR
		Its founder Jan Zizka from Trocnov was a bohemian military warlord – a genius in its tacticts and methods of fight – who led the hussite forces and is considered the greatest warrior of Czech history of all the time.
		Zizka is being mentioned as the person who set the basic principles of future tank warfare.
		Jan Hus was burned at stake as a heretic in Constance in Southern Germany as early as in the year 1415, nevertheless he can be considered a spiritual co-founder of the town.
	www.pragueholiday.cz /tabor.html (1645 words)

	AllRefer.com - John Zizka (Czech And Slovak History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		When the Hussite Wars broke out in 1420, Zizka was about 60 years old and blind in one eye.
		Having joined the Taborites (the radical Hussite wing), Zizka made TAbor in Bohemia into an almost impregnable fortress and led (July, 1420) the Taborite troops in their victory over Sigismund at Visehrad (now a part of Prague).
		Although Zizka's fame is overshadowed by that of other commanders, he ranks with the great military innovators of all time.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/Z/Zizka-Jo.html (500 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Bohemia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A national Czech movement against (mainly German) foreign immigrants was promoted by the religious movement of Hussites under the leadership of Jan Hus, a precursor of Martin Luther, who was eventually burned at the stake.
		An unlikely half-blind squire by the name of Jan Zizka took the chalice as his symbol and led a peasant Hussite army against the forces of the Holy Roman Empire.
		After Zizka's death and crippling internal struggles, Bohemia was still able to negotiate freedom of religion in 1436 the so-called Basel Compacts (Peace and Freedom between Catholics and Utraquists (today: Bohemian Church)) but this lasted for only a short time, as in 1462, Pope Pius II declared Basel Compacts invalid.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Bohemia (1186 words)

	The Cross and the Chalice
		Zizka formed the Bohemian common folk into a very effective army, and he is credited with adapting wagons as their principle method of warfare.
		Zizka had lost one eye in his youth, and in 1421 he lost the other at the siege of Raby Even deprived of sight he still commanded the army to victory after victory, using the eyes of his captains.
		On 25 March, 1420, Zizka and approximately 12 wagons and 400 infantry were attacked during a supposed truce by 2000 Royalist cavalry.The Hussites deployed with one flank resting on a pond, and repulsed a series of assaults by the dismounted Royalists.>The Royalists withdrew at nightfall.
	members.shaw.ca /kblackley/hussites.htm (1420 words)

	JOHN ZIZKA 1370-1424, BY RAY KEENE - Impala Publishers Blog Page
		For Zizka to continue as a general when blind indicated both a colossal degree of mental organisation and a fantastic mental picture of terrain, as well as total recall of his battlefield layout.
		Zizka is one of them, a man whose achievements, in terms of persistence and determination, deserve to be heralded.
		That Zizka, blind in one eye and then blind in both, should lead the Czech people, few in number, and attacked as a ‘nation of heretics’, to success against the combined forces of the Papacy and the Emperor, then at the height of their power, beggars belief.
	www.impalapublications.com /blog/index.php?/archives/359-JOHN-ZIZKA-1370-1424.html (966 words)

	Osprey Publishing - The Hussite Wars 1419—36
		Jan Zizka is best known for his use of the Wagenburg, a defensive arrangement created from a number of wagons.
		When Zizka withdrew from Prague to Pilsen in early 1420 he was faced by the challenge of raids mounted by Royalist forces against nearby Hussite towns.
		Zizka had to find somewhere where the terrain would favour his defensive plans; this was not an easy proposition in the countryside of southern Bohemia, but to the south-east of Sudomer was an area of small lakes that had been dammed to make fishponds.
	www.ospreypublishing.com /title_detail.php?ser=MAA&title=S6658&view=spread&view=extract (760 words)

	Education World® - Social Sciences : Theology / Religion : History : Famous People : General Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)*
		Jan Hus and Jan Zizka Offers biographies of the two leaders of the Bohemian religious reform movement known as the Hussites and analyzes their struggle.
		Jan Hus and the Hussite Wars Browse through the chapters in this third volume of a history of Protestantism which describes the Bohemian movement of the 15th century.
		Jan Hus' Final Declaration Modern History Sourcebook Read a copy his statement, made on the eve of his execution, in which he refuses to renounce his challenge to the mother church.
	db.education-world.com /perl/browse?cat_id=10155 (603 words)

	Travel.Box (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The patience of the church ran out when Jan Hus began to announce everywhere he went: “It is of little good to listen to authorities, either sectarian or religious, if one himself is not in accordance with the rules of the Lord”.
		And that was exactly the time when the Hussites led by Jan Zizka founded the town of Tabor in their own defense on the top of a hill which bears the same name.
		Jan Zizka the famed Hussite warrior and leader chose this mountain to establish a town.
	travel.box.sk /newsread.php?newsid=4250 (2474 words)

	October 11: Bohemian General John Zizka dies
		Zizka was about sixty when he led the peasant "Warriors of God." He had been a fighter for much of his life and was so successful now that his name inspired dread.
		Zizka, however, was a man of his word.
		When Jan Hus was betrayed by the Council of Constance and burned at the stake in 1415, his Bohemian countrymen, the "Hussites," were not ready to accept defeat.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2001/10/daily-10-11-2001.shtml (632 words)

	On the Trail Of Jan Hus - New York Times
		The chalice acquired this status four centuries earlier through followers of Jan Hus, the revolutionary preacher and patriot who was burned at the stake as a heretic at the outset of the Council of Constance in 1415.
		The museum is on Zizka Square, named for Jan Zizka of Trocnov, an occasional robber baron who became Brother Zizka of the Chalice, the most renowned Hussite commander, one-eyed at the start, blind at the end.
		In 1420 Zizka returned at the head of a Hussite army, stormed the walled town and burned it down, a scene illustrated in a diorama in the museum on the main square.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9E03E5DB1039F935A25752C1A961958260&sec=travel&pagewanted=print (2089 words)

	All Empires - The Hussite Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jan Zizka, the Hussite military leader, expelled Sigismund in 1420 and routed him again at Kutna Hora in 1422.
		After the death (1424) of Zizka the division between the radical and the moderate parties of the Hussites the Taborites and the Utraquistswidened.
		Zizka tactic was a one of the most imaginative and offensive minded use of field fortifications, and his battles were classics of defensive-offensive tactics
	www.allempires.com /articles/hussite/hussite1.htm (950 words)

	ThroughSpydercoHole :::: Vitkov ... building still has atmosphere of a tomb ...
		Knowing the city was unprepared, Hussite military mastermind Jan Zizka led a small regiment up Vitkov hill, which was then well outside the city walls.
		Zizka employed one of his favorite tactics: occupying the high ground and provoking the enemy into making foolish charges.
		It was also in the spirit of victory that the First Czechoslovak Republic, high on a decade of independence, began plans to erect a monument on the hill to the struggle for nationhood.
	www.sweb.cz /myspyderco2/vitkov (641 words)

	Expozice husité (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Very soon, Jan Hus, from the small Southern Bohemian village of Husinec, became the most prominent critic of the Church’s way of life.
		The exhibits in this room are dedicated to Jan Hus and to his dramatic fight against the highest authorities of the Catholic Church.
		Jan Zizka became an outstanding defender of the Husite faith, which was threatened by many enemies within and outside the country.
	www.husmuzeum.cz /eng/husite.htm (280 words)

	Orthodoxy and the Protestant Reformation
		Jan Hus (from his town of Husinec) was very interested in the pastoral care of his Czech flock.
		Jan Hus died forgiving his enemies, foretelling that the Church would exonerate him, reciting the Creed and saying the Jesus Prayer.
		The Hussites were formed and Jan Zizka, the great Czech general, repelled the papal forces from Bohemia no less than five times, using brilliant military strategy.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/articles/alex_roman/protestantism.htm (1408 words)

	All Empires History Forum: Who is the greatest military leader of the medieval period?
		In addition, Zizka was blind during this battle but he overcame all handicaps and setbacks.
		It is very hard to say that he is the best, but he has one thing on most generals, he never lost one battle, and he did that whenever he was one-eyed and even blind for the last few years of his life.
		Zizka at most had 20,000 men versus the great combined armies of the crusaders from nearly every surrounding country.
	www.allempires.com /forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=2939&PN=4 (1916 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Zizka, John (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Zizka, John ZIZKA, JOHN [Zizka, John], Czech Jan Å½iÅ¾ka, d.
		A priest, he joined the Hussite movement (see Hussites) and distinguished himself as a captain under John Zizka in the Hussite Wars.
		Hussite Wars HUSSITE WARS [Hussite Wars] series of conflicts in the 15th cent., caused by the rise of the Hussites in Bohemia and Moravia.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/14189.html (456 words)

	Jan Zizka (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Zizka turned this loss into an advantage, having his men fight with the tools they were most used to using.
		They travelled to battle in farm wagons - with the Hussite women fighting alongside the men - and when they were engaged in battle, they arranged the wagons in a circle, as a sort of temporary (and portable) fortress.
		Zizka was also the first to use artillery in battle (it had theretofore only been used to beseige castles), and was a master at keeping up morale.
	archiv.radio.cz /history/zizka.html (361 words)

	Prague: Bohemia Lost - Pology Magazine
		Jan is soon hungry, though, so it’s time to head north toward the infamous Zizkov Tower – a rocket-shaped television aerial, known locally as the Prague Prick.
		Jan assures me it is a typical Czech pub.
		Its name means “The Shot-Out Eye” – a tribute to the one-eyed general Jan Zizka, who led the Hussites to victory over the invading papal forces in 1420.
	pology.com /article/056142.html (383 words)

	WHKMLA : History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, the Hussites : 1410-1526
		Leading among the religious freethinkers was JAN HUS; central among the ideas separating the HUSSITES was the communion in both kinds ("sub utraque specie", meaning both in bread and wine; hence UTRAQUISTS).
		Hussitism was a distinctly Czech movement; Jan Hus preached in Czech (and contributed to the standardization of Czech orthography).
		In 1414 Jan Hus was called to appear in front of the COUNCIL OF CONSTANCE, where he was to defend his teaching.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/bohemiahussites.html (724 words)

	HDM Back Issues_13Witkovsky
		Stories of Zizka’s patriotic fervor and military prowess galvanized separatist sentiment during the last decades of Habsburg imperial rule—witness the 1869 decision to rename the entire neighborhood “Zizkov”—and a public competition for his statue in 1913 elicited over five dozen submissions.
		In 1925, the architect Jan Zázvorka won the competition to design the monument, only to spend the next thirteen years watching his proposal take shape.
		The neighborhood’s namesake, Zizka, has played a part in this revival—the name of the pioneer postrevolution bar, “The Shot-Out Eye,” alludes to his legendary blindness—and the monument itself has been used increasingly as a venue for concerts and performances sponsored by the Zizkov municipality.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /research/publications/hdm/back/13witkovsky.html (4841 words)

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