Battle of Kutná Hora

Battle of Kutná Hora
	Part of the Second anti-Hussite crusade, Hussite Wars
	; Josef Mathauser - Jan Žižka in front of Kutná Hora
Date	21 December 1421
Location	Kutná Hora
Result	Hussite victory; Loyalist retreat out of Bohemia;
Belligerents
Crusade along with Catholic loyalists Kingdom of Hungary; Holy Roman Empire Kingdom of Germany; Duchy of Austria; Silesian duchies; Margraviate of Moravia; Bohemian Catholic nobility; ;	Hussite coalition Praguers; Taborites; Orebites; Bohemian Hussite nobility;
Commanders and leaders
King Sigismund; Pippo Spano	Jan Žižka
Strength
50,000–92,000 80,000 Hungarians; 12,000 Austrians;	12,000–18,000
Casualties and losses
2,000–12,000 men	Unknown, less than Catholics

The Battle of Kutná Hora (Kuttenberg) was an early battle and subsequent campaign in the Hussite Wars, fought on 21 December 1421 between German and Hungarian troops of the Holy Roman Empire and the Hussites, an early ecclesiastical reformist group that was founded in what is now the Czech Republic.

In 1419, Pope Martin V declared a crusade against the Hussites. One branch of the Hussites, known as the Taborites, formed a religious-military community at Tábor. Under the leadership of the talented general Jan Žižka, the Taborites adopted the latest weaponry available, including handguns, long, thin cannons, nicknamed "snakes", and war wagons. Their adoption of the latter gave them the ability to fight a flexible and mobile style of warfare. Originally employed as a measure of last resort, its effectiveness against the royal cavalry turned field artillery into firm part of Hussite armies.

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