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By the 11th century, much of the infantry fighting was conducted by high-ranking nobles, middle-class freemen and peasants, who were expected to have a certain standard of equipment, often including helmet, spear, shield and secondary weapons in the form of an axe, long knife or sword.
Freiburg, which was a Habsburg territory, had considerable trouble raising enough conscripts to fight the peasants, and when the city did manage to put a column together and march out to meet them, the peasants simply melted into the forest. After the refusal by the Duke of Baden, Margrave Ernst, to accept the 12 Articles, peasants attacked ...
The English Peasants' Revolt or Great Rising of 1381 is a major event in the history of England. It is the best documented among the revolts of this period. 1401–1409 Samogitian uprisings; 1419–1434 Hussite Wars; The Irmandiño revolts in Galicia in 1431 and 1467. The Engelbrekt rebellion of 1434–1436 in Sweden. 1437–1438 Transylvanian ...
The Cudgel War was the 16th century peasant uprising in Finland, which was at that time part of the Kingdom of Sweden. [1] Poltettu kylä (Burned Village), by Albert Edelfelt, 1879. The history of peasant wars spans over two thousand years. A variety of factors fueled the emergence of the peasant revolt phenomenon, including: [2] Tax resistance
The Knights' War of 1522 was a revolt by a number of Protestant and religious humanist German knights led by Franz von Sickingen, against the Roman Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Emperor. It has also been called the "Poor Barons' Rebellion". The revolt was short-lived but would inspire the bloody German Peasants' War of 1524–1526.
German-Hungarian border War (1056–1058) Holy Roman Empire: Kingdom of Hungary: Stalemate. treaty of Marchfeld; Henry IV: Civil War between King Andrew I and his brother, Prince Bela (1060) King Andrew I's army Holy Roman Empire. Prince Béla's army Kingdom of Poland. Defeat: Henry IV: German invasion of Hungary (1063) Holy Roman Empire. Duchy ...
Peasant Uprising Czech Peasants Austrian Empire: Defeat 1775 Peasant Uprising Czech Peasants Austrian Empire: Defeat 1848 Pentecostal Storm: Czechs: Austrian Empire: Defeat 1914 - 1918 World War I: Czechoslovak Legions Triple Entente: Central Powers: Victory 1917- 1922 Russian Civil War: Czechoslovak Legions White Movement: Russian Soviet ...
The civil war caused more than ten million deaths from fighting, terror, plagues and mainly famine, which took about half, and another couple of million emigrated, affecting mainly adult men. Another ten million people were not born as a result of the fall in the birth rate according to demographic estimates. [ 176 ]