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Cavalry Battles

Battles shaped by cavalry raids, flank maneuver, and mobile striking power.

Cavalry Battles brings related battle reports together through logistics, command and control, time-space use, intelligence, and force multiplier lenses. This page places individual reports in context and makes shared patterns of decision, terrain, and force balance easier to follow.

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Aralık 1519 - 5 April 1521

Polish–Teutonic War (Rider's War) 1519–1521

Poland broke the military resistance of the Teutonic Knights and consolidated the vassalage status established by the 1466 Treaty of Thorn. The Treaty of Kraków (1525) secularized the Monastic State, transforming it into the Duchy of Prussia as a vassal to the Polish Crown. The Teutonic Order permanently lost its centuries-old political and military presence in Prussian territories. Albert's conversion to Lutheranism and abandonment of the religious-military identity collapsed the Order's ideological legitimacy in the Baltic.

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