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Emboldened by these accessions, though still far inferior in strength to Ottocar, he pressed on till the two armies faced each other on the plains of Murchfield. It was the 26th of August, 1278. At this moment some traitors deserting the camp of Ottocar, repaired to the camp of Rhodolph and proposed to assassinate the Bohemian king.
The Thuringian knight who speared the emperor's horse in the bloody fight of Murchfield, was rescued by Rhodolph from those who would cut him down. "I have witnessed," said the emperor, "his intrepidity, and never could forgive myself if so courageous a knight should be put to death." During the war with Ottocar, on one occasion the army were nearly perishing of thirst.
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