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The following day was described in several languages. The most complete description of the battle can be found in the Swedish book Slaget vid Jankov, published in Stockholm in 1945. It summarises numerous historical sources as well as actual on-site research conducted in 1944 by a group of Swedish experts. Data may occasionally differ between various sources. The sources that cite most events in a similar fashion are used here. Before describing the battle itself, it is befitting to turn our attention to the battlefield, which differed considerably from the way it looks today, and to the manner of fighting of the period.
At that time, a square bastion with a tower at each corner stood in Jankov, beneath the pond called Hrad [“Castle”] today. The bastion was the seat of the local nobility, the Talmbergs, who owned Jankov. The pond was where the Swedish troops watered their horses. A shrine stood on the Chratisov Hill near Jankov. St. Mark chapel stood on a hillock near Vlckov, in the direction of Neustupov, nothing is left of it, and today’s settlement of Kralovna did not exist then. The main road from Ratmerice to Jankov passed through the village green, along what is now the pond Jordanek, rising along the woods or passing through, and entering Jankov approximately where the cemetery is today. Since fields were laid perpendicular to the road, and as the terrain slopes uphill from Ratmerice, the baulks between individual fields would form a sort of a stairway. That happened to play an important role at the end of the battle. The “Hartmany” forest was larger than today and its boundaries ran along different lines then. For example, Habruvka, standing in the midst of fields, would have been on the border of the forest, if not in it.