Great Prussian Uprising

The Great Prussian Uprising was the largest revolt of the Old Prussians against the Teutonic Order, which had conquered them in the mid-13th century. Encouraged by the Order's defeat by the Samogitians at Durbe in 1260, the Prussian tribes rose under leaders such as Herkus Monte of the Natangians and Diwanus of the Bartians and besieged the Order's castles. Reinforced by crusaders, the knights crushed it by 1274, and Prussian resistance never recovered.