Wagon fort the square would usually be the cavalry. There were two principal stages of the battle using the wagon fort: defensive and counterattack. The defensive part would be a pounding of the enemy with artillery. The Hussite artillery was a primitive form of a howitzer, called in Czech a "houfnice", from which the English word howitzer comes. Also, they called their guns the Czech word "píšťala" (hand cannon), meaning that they were shaped like a pipe or a fife, from which the English word pistol is possibly derived. When the enemy would come close to the wagon fort, crossbowmen and hand-gunners
Name of the Czech Republic and Politics at the British Embassy in Prague, Giles Portman, showed a willingness to accept the name "Czechia". Portman said in 2000, "Czechs still use the name "Česká republika" rather than "Česko", and the English equivalent, "the Czech Republic", rather than "Czechia". Were that pattern to change, we would have no problem at all with adapting accordingly. But we feel that the initiative for that change must come from the Czech side and not from us." In 2013, Czech president Miloš Zeman recommended the wider official use of "Czechia", and on 14 April 2016, the government agreed to make "Czechia"