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 | | By the 14th century, the charging knight on horseback with a sword had begun to be featured in a heraldic shield, first in Jogaila's seal in 1386 or 1387, and also in the seal of Vytautas in 1401. |
 | | It is known that at the Zalgiris (Grunwald) battle, where the united Polish-Lithuanian army crushed the army of the Teutonic Knights, thus putting an end to its expansion to the east, thirty Lithuanian regiments out of the total forty were flying with the sign of the Vytis. |
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