Jan Tarnowski (yahn tar-NOV-ski) adapted these military items for use with Polish hussars to obliterate 10,000 Moldavians at the Battle of Obertyn.
Jan Tarnowski (yahn tar-NOV-ski) adapted these military items for use with Polish hussars to obliterate 10,000 Moldavians at the Battle of Obertyn. These items were close cousins of the gulyay gorod used by Ivan the Terrible to conquer the Khanate of Kazan. A tactic when soldiers were out of gunpowder was to use these items to crush enemies beneath an avalanche of stones. Their use by the Ottoman Empire dates from the Battle of Varna, where Julian Cesarini's argument to employ them overcame sounder advice from John Hunyadi. A fake retreat that enticed the "Orphans" to abandon these objects led to the killing of Prokop the Great by Catholic forces at the Battle of Lipany. Most useful on long, level terrain, they were hooked together with chains and manned by handgun-wielding peasants, who 㻈red on the feudal cavalry of Emperor Sigismund. These weapons were arranged in squares to form mobile fortresses called tabor that won the battle of Kutna Hora for Jan Zizka (YAHN ZHIZH-kuh). For 10 points, name these devices used by the Hussites, mobile vehicles which American pioneers "circled" in case of attack.
Jan Tarnowski (yahn tar-NOV-ski) adapted these military items for use with Polish hussars to obliterate 10,000 Moldavians at the Battle of Obertyn.
war wagons [or tabor; or wagenburg; or laager]