By Stephen Turnbul
ISBN-10: 1841765619
ISBN-13: 9781841765617
By means of 1400 the lengthy working clash among the Order of Teutonic Knights and Poland and Lithuania was once coming to a head, partially end result of the Order’s meddling within the inner politics of its neighbours. In June 1410 King Wladislaw Jagiello of Poland invaded the Order’s territory with a strong allied military together with the entire enemies of the Teutonic Knights – Poles, Lithuanians, Russians, Bohemians, Hungarians, Tartars and Cossacks. This e-book recounts how, whilst the armies clashed at the wooded, rolling hills close to the small village of Tannenberg, the Teutonic Knights suffered a disastrous defeat from which their Order by no means recovered.
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President George Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev make a joint statement on their discussions in the Malta Summit. December 20, 1989 Lithuania votes for independence from the Soviet Union. December 22, 1989 Romanian communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu is toppled and executed three days later. March 1990 Lithuania declares independence from Moscow. March 14, 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected president of the Soviet Union. 1989 Wayne Gretzky becomes professional hockey’s alltime leading scorer.
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