At length they retired of their own accord, dragging after them twenty thousand captives.

During a period of twenty-seven years, under the imbecile reign of Frederic, the very heart of Europe was twelve times scourged by the inroads of these savages.

No tongue can tell the woes which were inflicted upon humanity.

Existence, to the masses of the people, in that day, must indeed have been a curse.
Ground to the very lowest depths of poverty by the exactions of ecclesiastics and nobles, in rags, starving, with no social or intellectual joys, they might indeed have envied the beasts of the field.
The conduct of Frederic seems to be marked with increasing treachery and perfidy.

Jealous of the growing power of George Podiebrad, he instigated Matthias, King of Hungary, to make war upon Bohemia, promising Matthias the Bohemian crown.