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Zoltán Péter Bagi

THE WEATHER AS INFLUENTING FACTOR IN THE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS OF THE FIFTEEN-YEAR WAR

By way of a summary, one can say that although both warring factions set the timeframes for their planned military campaigns, the climatic conditions of the time meant that keeping to these campaign seasons proved impossible. The large amounts of precipitation that is characteristic of the spring months and the accompanying flooding impeded the larger armies’ ability to move. The cold weather that arrived at the end of September and the beginning of October, and the windy, rainy and indeed snowy weather that followed not only set the limits for the movement and indeed maintenance of large numbers of soldiers, but to a large extent actually decided the fate of a military campaign. Thus from the sources we have it is possible to conclude that during the course of the fifteen-year war the length of time it was possible to carry out a major military campaign was reduced to a period of two to two and a half months.

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