Battle of Grunwald 1410 The biggest medieval battle. Germans smashed.

czechs did not conquered the malbork castle. the czech guy who was part of the castle crew betrayed the teutons and opened the gates for Poles

UK and France, 1939, declared war on Germany for attacking Poland (Slavs).
Post war politics was about ideology (communism/capitalism) not racial matters.

So what are you saying?

Battle of Hastings interests me and that was 1066 :)

sorry for taking it a bit off topic, just wanted to point out to Torny that there are no time lines where history is concerned.

Really perfect example...

Ya the battle at grunwald is a fine example of Polish battles.

from over 600 years ago.

So what? Thermopyles was 2500 years ago but everybody wants to be like Spartians.

who is everybody? You mean they would give up the warm houses/TV sets and computers/frozen food to live in Sparta again LOL

stop daydreaming

No,I mean they would like to look like Leonidas and the 300.

I wonder how much this movie depicts what really happened. THe same goes for Matejko painting, which was more symbolic than realistic. After all he painted it some hundreds years after the battle. I am sure it was a political painting and was probably used to rise the patriotic spirit of Poles.

Both the movie and the painting are bull...t.

The Spartans had a 5 foot wall between them and the Persians and something like 1800 auxilaries to help, also its highly doubtfull there was more than 100 or 200 thousands Persians rather than a milion.

As for Matejko. Jagiełlo was not fighting, he did kill a single teutonic knight who get near his position by sheer accident, the movie is typical Hollywood crap and the painting is purely symbolic.

I know there were no gramlings,zombies or rhinocerus in persian army.No Frankenstein either.However the movie was good since it kept the comics atmosphere.

There is no reliable historic movie.However Troya and Alexander the Great were a bit humiliating since Achilles had colour on hair and Alexander was presented as super gay.While in fact Alexander's body was full of old wounds by weapons as historians say.

Yep. They were pathetic.


I was sarcastic.

i apologize Pan Grzegorz

I don't watch TV and I don't spend much time watching multimillion dollar pawns. To me it's a waste of time.


So what exactly are you achieving by knowing the latest football score?

I understand that!
I love to read about the Battle in the Teutoburger Forest...and that was 2000 years back! :)

It amazes me when I witness history repeating itself in current events.

Example.
When Princess Diana died and the Royal Family kept a 'dignified silence'.
This was very similar to how the population of Ancient Rome reacted towards their Royal Families 'dignified silence' over the death of Germanicus...2000 years ago!

I love history. Especially ancient to, around, 1700.

It's just that humans didn't change that much! :)

They should have a report of this battle everyday in newspaper first page.Sorbs must have taken part in this battle.

do what you must


Thread is about German/Teutonic invasion and respond on that invasion. Germany invaded and invading. Every invasion is followed with retaliation

after all, it was if. Let it be said just in case. I mean, if NATO failed to secure borders of Greater Germany

Polands allies durring this battle

Lithuanians nad Tatars mentioned is 2:00 minute of this movie.

500 Russians

(nice movie made by Russians from mediveal festival in Poland)



and some Czechs.

Grunwald 2008 14/18: Inscenizacja bitwy (it is good party) - every summer in Poland

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hehehe, fantasy but really pleasurable to think about

What were the ramifications of this huge battle? How did it change things for the Polish?

We, as schoolkids in Poland, had to memorize yet another date!

all who come to consume Slavija perishes on the battlefield of history

It triggered Polish rise to power where Poland became arguably the most powerfull state in Europe for another 200+ years, it destroyed any hope of German and Russian expansion for another quarter of a millenium, before the battle Poland was just a relatively strong kingdom with an uncertain future, when was over it became overnight a European power that would get larger and greater on every field for over a century to come.

ConstantineK
Re The Matejko painting of Grunwald. It is a majestic panorama and well worth visiting to see it at the Art Gallery and in the adjacent Military Museum in Warsaw there are example of weapons and armour from the 'Grunwald period'.

This thread title is so-not-PC.

As we are all together in EU now, it should read...


Polish-German military meeting - Tannenberg/Grunwald 1410


The biggest (but luckily only temporary) misunderstanding in mutual relations.


Compromise finally reached, with a slightly better outcome for the Polish side.

This is correct, although various arguments could made about the details in the comparison...Rome, Byzantium and Moscow were quite different civilizations, and all went through various stages of development.