  the battle of lipany or lipan, also called the battle of ÄeskÃ½ brod, was fought at lipany 40&nbsp;km east of prague on 30 may 1434 and virtually ended the hussite wars. an army of utraquist nobility and catholics, called the bohemian league, defeated the radical taborites and orphans (or sirotÄÃ­) led by prokop the great, the overall commander, and by jan Äapek of sÃ¡ny, the cavalry commander. == the battle == the radicals set up a wagenburg on a strategically advantageous hill, and both armies stood against each other for some time. an attempt by the utraquists to negotiate and resolve the conflict peacefully failed due to irreconcilable position of the radicals. three days after the unsuccessful negotiations, the leaguers advanced to the radicals' encampment; although the following mutual cannonade was harmless due to distance between the two armies, to the surprise of the radicals the leaguers began to retreat with all their wagons. thinking that the enemy was fleeing, the radicals' commanders opened the wagenburg to attack the leaguers' formation, not knowing that the retreat was a trick to draw them out of the wagenburg. as the radicals approached the leaguers' army, the leaguers stopped and began to fire from their wagons. at the same time, the leaguers' heavy cavalry, which had been hidden near the radicals' camp, undertook a surprise attack from the side and penetrated into the open wagenburg. the radicals' army quickly collapsed and the commander of the orphans' cavalry, Äapek of sÃ¡ny, fled with all his men to the nearby town of kolÃ­n. the battle now changed into a massacre of the lightly equipped radical forces. both prokop the great and prokÅ¯pek (prokop the little) were killed, holding "the last stand" at the wagons. some prominent leaders of the radicals, including jan rohÃ¡Ä of dubÃ¡, were captured, but about 700 ordinary soldiers who surr
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