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bands. The aged King of Bohemia led
the third squadron, six thousand
cavaliers all well armed and
mounted and eager for battle,
bearing as a standard a white lion
with two tails upon a crimson
ground. The fourth squadron was
led by Seri of the Lipa, the Duke of
Austria, who had seven thousand
horsemen burning for the fight and
well versed in arms and in the
usages of warfare. They bore as their
standard two pennons, one with a
two-headed white eagle on a red
ground with white spots, and the
other with a white mountain on _
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