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Published on: VG

April 9, 1241

strong contingent of Germans, Poles, Templars and Teutonic Knights marches out of Liegnitz (Poland) to attack the inferior Mongol forces; the two sides meet on the Wahlstadt plain: Duke Henry’s forces are annihilated almost to the last man; the Mongol forces are merely a diversionary force for General Subutai: the bulk of the troops are crossing the Carpathians