John Huss and the Hussite Wars - James Aitken Wylie

Roman Catholics. The Taborites remained under
the command of Procopius, who, although most
desirous of composing the strife and letting his
country have rest, would not accept of peace on
terms which he held to be fatal to his nation's faith
and liberty. Bohemia, he clearly saw, had entered
on the descending path. Greater concessions and
deeper humiliations were before it. The enemy
before whom she had begun to humble herself
would not be satisfied till he had reft from her all
she had won on the victorious field. Rather than
witness this humiliation, Procopius betook himself
once more to the field at the head of his armed
Taborites.
Bloody skirmishes marked the opening of the
conflict. At last, the two armies met on the plain of
Lipan, twelve English miles from Prague, the 29th
of May, 1434, and a great battle was fought. The
day, fiercely contested on both sides, was going in
favor of Procopius, when the general of his cavalry
rode off the field with all under his command. This
decided the action. Procopius, gathering round him
the bravest of his soldiers, rushed into the thick of
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