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Anonymous ID: 113a7e April 29, 2022, 7:55 a.m. No.16176683   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>6785

>>16176547

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunwald_Swords

 

Your Majesty! The Grand Master Ulryk sends you and your brother (…) through us, the deputies standing here, two swords for help so that you, with him and his army, may delay less and may fight more boldly than you have shown, and also that you will not continue hiding and staying in the forest and groves, and will not postpone the battle. And if you believe that you have too little space to form your ranks, the Prussian master Ulryk, to entice you to battle, will withdraw from the plain which he took for his army, as far as you want, or you may instead choose any field of battle so that you do not postpone the battle any longer.

— Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen's envoys

 

We accept the swords you send us, and in the name of Christ, before whom all stiff-necked pride must bow, we shall do battle.

— King Władysław II, Letter to Queen Anna of Celje

 

Where, then, are the two swords of the enemies? They were indeed cut down with those swords with which they tried to terrify the humble! Behold, they sent you two swords, the swords of violence and of pride, and have lost many thousands of them, having been utterly defeated.

— Jan Hus, Letter to King Władysław II, 1411

Anonymous ID: 113a7e April 29, 2022, 8:12 a.m. No.16176785   🗄️.is đź”—kun

>>16176683

>We accept the swords you send us, and in the name of Christ, before whom all stiff-necked pride must bow, we shall do battle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grunwald

The battle shifted the balance of power in Central and Eastern Europe and marked the rise of the Polish–Lithuanian union as the dominant regional political and military force.

The battle was one of the largest in medieval Europe. The battle is viewed as one of the most important victories in the histories of Poland and Lithuania. It is also commemorated in Ukraine and Belarus. It has been used as a source of romantic legends and national pride, becoming a larger symbol of struggle against foreign invaders. During the 20th century, the battle was used in Nazi German and Soviet propaganda campaigns.