Battle of Grunwald
July 15, 1410
The Polish-Lithuanian hosts under Jogaila and Vytautas crushed the Teutonic Knights in a dusty forest clearing in Prussia. Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen died in the melee; two hundred white-mantled knights were left face-down in the ferns. The Order's four-century crusade against the pagan Baltic was broken in an afternoon.
In context
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Before and after in Europe
- Before: 1409: University of Leipzig Founded
- After: 1411: Peace of Thorn
Before and after in War
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.