About the year 1225 another military brotherhood was established among the Prussian Lithuanians called the Teutonic Order, which built the cities of Thorn, Marienburg, Elbing and Koenigsberg. Their emblem was a black cross, and they appear always to have been friendly with the red cross knights, the object of both being, principally, plunder. The two orders united in 1237 and became one association, the grand master of the Teutonic Order taking precedence over all the others.
In the meantime the original Battle tribes of Livonians, Letts and Finns became serfs, being attached to the land after the manner of the Saxons of England under the Norman conquerors.
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From General Nelson A. Miles
Thrilling Stories of The Russian-Japanese War, 1904
