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Battle Of Wurzach
The Battle of Wurzach (german: Gefecht bei Wurzach or ''Schlacht am Leprosenberg''), retrieved 7 June 2012 was a battle during the German Peasants' War that took place near Bad Wurzach in the present-day district of Landkreis Ravensburg, Ravensburg in Upper Swabia. Course of the battle During Easter Week, on Tuesday 11 April 1525, George of Waldburg-Zeil (1488–1531), Farmer George (''Bauernjörg'') and his army were still deployed on a line from Ulm to Leipheim. In the evening of that day he encamped in Baltringen, one of the bases of the rebellion. Three days later, the mercenaries (''Landsknechte''), armoured cavalry (''Panzerreiter''), and camp followers (' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Peasants' War
The German Peasants' War, Great Peasants' War or Great Peasants' Revolt (german: Deutscher Bauernkrieg) was a widespread popular revolt in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525. It failed because of intense opposition from the aristocracy, who slaughtered up to 100,000 of the 300,000 poorly armed peasants and farmers. The survivors were fined and achieved few, if any, of their goals. Like the preceding Bundschuh movement and the Hussite Wars, the war consisted of a series of both economic and religious revolts in which peasants and farmers, often supported by Anabaptist clergy, took the lead. The German Peasants' War was Europe's largest and most widespread popular uprising before the French Revolution of 1789. The fighting was at its height in the middle of 1525. The war began with separate insurrections, beginning in the southwestern part of what is now Germany and Alsace, and spread in subsequent insurrections to the central and eastern areas of Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
