Battle of Chlumec nad Cidlinou

1775 CE.

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Battle of Chlumec nad Cidlinou was a final military engagement between Austrian army and Czech peasant rebels during the peasant revolt of 1775 in Bohemia at 25 and 26 March 1775. Peasants fighting for better conditions of their serf duties of corvée were crushed near the town of Chlumec nad Cidlinou and pushed to the Chlumec pond.

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Chlumec nad Cidlinou, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

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