JAN ZIZKA

(Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha)


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Jan Zizka

Make my skin into drumheads for the Bohemian cause.
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At the time military drumheads were made of the hide of animals. As the idea is gross to most of us today, it was to his Bohemian compatriots. The metaphor of using his remains to help even in such a simple and lowly way was dramatic patriotism in those days as it would be today.

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Jan Zizka
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Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English: John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice) was a Czech general – a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and a Radical Hussite who led the Taborites. Žižka was a successful military leader and is now a Czech national hero. He was nicknamed "One-eyed Žižka", having lost one and then both eyes in battle.