Thanks to internet magic, the characters and events in Jan Matejko's classic (and frankly, enormous) painting ‘The Battle of Grunwald’ have been explained at last. Click the image below to find out ...

1410, according to Encyclopedia Britannica. The battle, fought near the Polish villages of Stębark (also known as Tannenberg), Grunwald and Ludwigsdorf, ended with a Polish-Lithuanian victory ...

The Battle of Grunwald, also known as the First Battle of Tannenberg, was a major conflict ... The battle unfolded on July 15, 1410, in northeastern Poland, near the villages of Grunwald and ...

Far away in Doorn the ex-Kaiser, too, bethought him of the Battle of Tannenberg and recalled that if Hindenberg and Ludendorff were its heroes, it was only because he had sent them there.

The fight is also sometimes known as the second Battle of Tannenberg, with the first taking place in 1410 when the Poles defeated the Teutonic Knights. A memorial was constructed on the site under ...

This is the 141st installment in the series. The saying “victory has many fathers” is especially true when it comes to the Battle of Tannenberg. One of the greatest triumphs in history—which ...