Battle Of Hemmingstedt, 1500, peasant militia against odds 12:1 won killing 1,000's

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  • FrommerStop

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    Battle Of Hemmingstedt, 1500 AD, Danish king wanted to take them over and sent a large combined army of knights and mercenaries. The farmers choose the battlefield and used their disadvantages and advantages to their favor. They lacked proper armor which allowed them to maneuver over soggy and flooded ground. Good tactics and bravery won the day for them and they stayed free another 60 years before another Danish King finally conquered them.

    Apparently they had a martial culture from fighting as mercenaries and knew how to fight.

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    peter wurst 1 ❤




    iam from dithmarschen and i have to say u did a great job. also in germany this incredible battle is mostly unknown, but we dithmarschens are proud of this battle, free farmers fought for there freedom against superior knights and won. After the battle they only burried the poor foodmen, not the knights. The sentence "Look out Guard! Here come the peasants!" in origin" Ward de Gard de Bur de kümmt!"
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    What is so ingenious avout Wulf Isebrand’s plan is that normally when you ambush somebody you pick a chokepoint, hide your forces there and trick the enemy into thinking it is safe to pass there. So the attack is the surprise, Wulf Isebrand turned that around. He used his meager forces as bait and hid the choakpoint using flooding which not only hid the drainage ditches but also quickly turned the land into what it originally was, a bog. On top of that he carefully engineered a crowd disaster. I’ve seen a partial casualty lists of Danish/German deaths from Hemmingsted (nobles only, of course). All the men from whole families were killed there, knights and nobles with all of their sons. To add insult to injury the Dittmarshians buried the common soldiers after the battle but left the bodies of nobles to be eaten by wild animals
     

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    thanks FS for posting this, it was fascinating. I read a little deeper on the subject and was amazed at how rough the average people had it in those days.
     

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    thanks FS for posting this, it was fascinating. I read a little deeper on the subject and was amazed at how rough the average people had it in those days.

    The founders of our country were well versed in this sort of history and wrote our constitution in a way of giving the common people a way to stop such things from happening.
     

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    Very interesting battle... So fascinating in the study of battles how whole armies can be destroyed by limiting their mobility and trapping them in a kill zone.

    Now just for fun, and to show how NewsPapers in the Olden days informed, there was a short article and Poem written by Indiana author Herman Charles Frederick Rave in the 1880s about the battle. It does make one appreciate the wonderful Graphics available for people to tell the story today.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28916120/the_battle_of_hemmingstedt/
     

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    Very interesting battle... So fascinating in the study of battles how whole armies can be destroyed by limiting their mobility and trapping them in a kill zone.

    Now just for fun, and to show how NewsPapers in the Olden days informed, there was a short article and Poem written by Indiana author Herman Charles Frederick Rave in the 1880s about the battle. It does make one appreciate the wonderful Graphics available for people to tell the story today.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28916120/the_battle_of_hemmingstedt/
    One of the most disastrous battles of the 100 years war had the heavily armored French Knight charging into a boggy field and taken out by long bowman first by arrows and then those that were mired in the muck were killed with hand weapons thrust through armor joint or if you had a war hammer you literally could brain an armored knight so immobilized.
    In an open field with proper infantry and cross bow support a charge by armored knights was hard to stop. On a narrow blocked causeway they were not so dangerous. Something similar happened to Cortez about the same time period in what is now Mexico city from the Aztecs. It was called La Noche Triste
    The Spanish head for the causeway out

    On the night of July 1, 1520,[3] his large army left their compound and headed west, toward the Tlacopan causeway. The causeway was apparently unguarded, and the Spaniards made their way out of their complex unnoticed, winding their way through the sleeping city under the cover of a rainstorm. Before reaching the causeway, they were noticed by Aztec warriors known as the Eagle Warriors, who sounded the alarm.[1]:298,305 First by a woman drawing water, and then by the priest of Huitzilopochtli from atop Templo Mayor.[2]:85

    The fighting was ferocious. As the Spaniards and their native allies reached the causeway, hundreds of canoes appeared in the waters alongside to harry them. The Spaniards fought their way across the causeway in the rain. Weighed down by gold and equipment, some of the soldiers lost their footing, fell into the lake, and drowned. Amid a vanguard of horsemen, Cortés pressed ahead and reached dry land at Tacuba, leaving the rest of the expedition to fend for itself in the treacherous crossing.[1]:299–300
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