Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed.

All the time we write only about dark ages of our history, it is time to change it.

The Battle of Grunwald (or 1st Battle of Tannenberg) took place on July 15, 1410 with the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania ranged against the Knights of the Teutonic Order. It was the decisive engagement in the Polish-Lithuanian-Teutonic War (1409-1411) and one of the greatest battles of medieval Europe.

The battle saw the Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights decisively defeated — and the order never recovered its former power.

The few eyewitness accounts are contradictory. It took place near several smaller villages, and different names in various languages are attributed to it.



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

That was a start of the golden years of Poland. It was like winning the most important battle at that times.

Suppose that it was slightly less impressive than it is on the Matejko paintings....

Oh I see that It hurts when on the other painting of this artist Russians are shown on knees ...

But the fact is that, it this battle Teutonic Knights (mostly Germans) were beaten ...

The fact is that the situation form other paintings appeared as well. What means Russians were on the knees, and it is historycial fact which appear in books. The fact is that only Poles have beaten you, in way you accepted this fact. Your tsar (beging in Cracow for help) converted in to catolic religion and was our puppet. There was Polish flag on top of Kremlin (moscov) (historical fact) ... read more about your history in XVII century .

i would love to see this battle in the way they made 300.

as to size of this battle there is discussion (look into my previous link) which medieval battle was the bigest : Battle of Grunwald or Battle of Towton (English prefere their) but I prefere our ...

Intersting ;) I preffere not to see how Americans would show our Tatars ;))))

id doesnt have to made by Americans. :)

as to movies about our grate victories, it is more probable that they will make movie about Jan III Sobieski smashing Ottoman Empire ... maybe M Gibson will do it ... but now it is only rumor

Great battle for freedom

... and yes, it was nice smash

Good work Poles

Sure Yes! It hurts us, but Russians were beaten for many times, not only from poland, but from tatars, swedes, french, germans, jupanees abd so on. But Roman empire, for example, was not so invincible, as it is described in textbooks.

My brothers, it always especialy hurts when bother harm/beat brother... from the micro level (from angle of one single family) to the macro level (when we speak about kin people/nations).

What does it matter who is Catholic, who is Protestant or Orthodox, etc. It is even good to us that we can expirience different religious approach thru expiriance of our kin nations.

Togather we can do so much, divided we are easy target


Tell us more please, about Russian expiriances with Romans. What remembered old chronicles?

It depends from the fact which Roman Empire do you mean? If it is Western part, than it fell long before Russia, if it is East Roman Empire (Byzantin or Romeion Empire), than Russia had long term relation with it, and may be considered as a true successor of it and therefore of all Roman Empire. This fact was well expressed during 15 cent in wellknown phrase "Moscow is a third Rome, two Romes fell (Rome itself and Constantinopol) but third stands and will stand forever"

To be precise, I was point on antic Rome, from time when Roman legions appeared on horizon of European (and not only European) natives

There were no any Russians or another present Europeans nations at that time.

You would find them under different names, much deeper in past then you can imagine

Crow, go check this stuff.

http://www.polishforums.com/desi_moj_balkanski_brate-10_14044_0.html