Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620

part in the command of the army; and in July, 1427, the new crusaders

entered Bohemia and began the siege of Kladrau. While they were almost hoping to capture the town, Procop suddenly advanced against them at the head of the united Utraquist army. Immediately the strange panic, which had become traditional at the approach of the Utraquists, seized upon the enemy; and they fled to t...