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15 JULY 1410

01 Teutonic army offers battle

The Teutonic Order deploys at 6am in two lines, with its left flank near the village of Tannenberg. The Polish-Lithuanian army arrives a short time later and forms itself into three lines. Although Grand Master Ulrich von Jungingen instructs his troops to dig camouflaged pits to blunt a Polish cavalry charge, he later orders his

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