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Topic: Battle of Prague (1648)

	PRAGUE - LoveToKnow Article on PRAGUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Prague was by its geographical situation naturally destined to become the capital of Bohemia, as it lies in the centre of the country.
		Two of the greatest battles of the Hussite wars, that of the ~i~kov and that of the Vy~ehrad (both 1420), were fought on the outskirts of Prague, and after the last-named battle the ancient Vy~ehrad castle was entirely destroyed.
		The centre of the old town and indeed of the entire community of Prague is the town hall (staromstsk radnice), which is surrounded by the market-place, the scene of the execution of the Bohemian patriots in 1621.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /P/PR/PRAGUE.htm (2507 words)

	Prague - Wikipedia
		Nicknames for Prague have included "city of a hundred (or thousand) spires", "the golden city", "the Paris of the Twenties in the Nineties", the "mother of all cities", and "the heart of Europe".
		Prague is the wealthiest city in Central and Eastern Europe, and wealthier than many in Western Europe, with a per-capita GDP (PPP) of EUR 32,357 in 2002, which is at 153% of the European Union average.
		Prague is served by Ruzyně International Airport (10,000,000 passangers per year), which is the hub of the flag carrier, CSA Czech Airlines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prague (1079 words)

	Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia
		Wallenstein defeated Mansfeld's army at the Battle of the Bridge of Dessau (1626) and General Tilly defeated the Danes at the Battle of Lutter (1626).
		In 1645, the Swedish marshal Lennart Torstensson defeated the Imperial army at the Battle of Jankau near Prague, and Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeated the Bavarian army in the Second Battle of Nördlingen.
		In 1648 the Swedes (commanded by Marshal Carl Gustaf Wrangel) and the French (led by Turenne and Conde) defeated the Imperial army at the Battle of Zusmarshausen and Lens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thirty_Years_War (4105 words)

	List of battles (alphabetical) - Wikipedia
		Battle of Guadalete - 711 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
		Battle of Mohács - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
		Battle of Xiangyang (1273) - Yuan conquest of Southern Sung
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	List of battles (alphabetical) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
		Battle of Mohacs - 1526 - Turkish Conquest of Hungary
		Battle of Pavia (773) - Conquests of Charlemagne
	www.enlightenweb.net /l/li/list_of_battles__alphabetical_.html (4710 words)

	Prague -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Prague's attempt to follow a moderate course in the wars was frustrated (1424) by an army led by John Žižka.
		In the War of the Austrian Succession, Prague was occupied by the French (1742) and the Prussians (1744); and in the Seven Years War it was (1757) the scene of a major victory of Frederick II of Prussia.
		In 1968 the “Prague Spring,” a brief period of liberal reforms attempted by the government of Alexander Dubček, was ended with the invasion of the Soviet military.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/Prague_History.asp (955 words)

	Thirty Years' War Information - TextSheet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This event, known as the Defenestration of Prague, began the Bohemian Revolt between Ferdinand II and Frederick V and was the spark of the Thirty Years' War, which had can be divided into four major periods: the Bohemian Revolt, Danish intervention, Swedish intervention, and the French intervention.
		Albert of Wallenstein defeated the Danes at the Battle of the Bridge of Dessau (1626) and General Tilly defeated the Protestants at the Battle of Lutter (1626).
		The Peace of Prague was incorporated into the Peace of Westphalia (which incorporated the Peace of Augsburg, though its landholdings date that was reestablished by the Peace of Prague was again reestablished from 1627 to 1624, which aided the Protestants.
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	Thirty Years' War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It occurred for a number of reasons, although it was from its outset a religious conflict between Protestants and Catholics, the self-preservation of the Habsburg dynasty was the central motive.
		In 1645, the Swedish marshal Lennart Torstensson defeated imperial army at the battle of Jankau near Prague, and Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeated the Bavarian army at the battle of Nördlingen (1645).
		In 1648 the Swedes (Marshal Carl Gustaf Wrangel) and the French (Turenne and Conde) defeated the Imperial army at the battle of Zusmarshausen and Lens.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/T/Thirty-Years'-War.htm (3548 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Archdiocese of Prague (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Severus, sixth Bishop of Prague, was one of the retinue of Duke Bretislaw Achilles, who brought (1039) the relics of St. Adalbert from Gnesen to Prague.
		Contrary to the regulations of the royal charter granted by Rudolph, subjects of the Archbishop of Prague built a Protestant church at Klostergrab and subjects of the Abbot of Braunau one at Braunau.
		After the battle of the White Mountain (1620) he took more severe measures against the disturbers; they were driven out of the country, the royal charter that had been the source of so much disorder was annulled, and a system of government introduced in 1627 that among other things made the clergy the first estate.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12338a.htm (4721 words)

	JewishGates.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In Poland, many Jews had served the landowners primarily as tax collectors, so the peasants developed the view that the Jews were the source of their poverty and misery.
		In 1648, the year the Thirty Years' War ended, the Ukrainian peasants were organized by Bogdan Chmielnitzky (or Chmielnicki) to avenge the high taxes and poverty.
		Jews began to return to their localities in Volhynia at the end of 1648, and a short while later were again living throughout the territory up to the Dnieper.
	www.jewishgates.com /file.asp?File_ID=47 (921 words)

	Thirty Years War 1618-1648
		Emperor Ferdinand II regained the Bohemian throne, Maximilian of Bavaria acquired the Palatinate.
		Tilly, the imperial commander, fell in battle in 1632.
		The settlement reached in the Treaty of Prague was wrecked by the French decision to intervene directly in the war.
	www.thecaveonline.com /APEH/thirtyyearswar.html (1442 words)

	October 9 [Definition] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Events 600-1899 680 - Battle of Karbala: Shia Imam Husayn bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was decapitated by forces under Caliph Yazid I. This is commemorated by Shi'a Muslims as Aashurah.
		Events 1200-1899 1244 - Battle of La Forbie: Crusaders were defeated by Khwarezmians and Egyptians 1346 - Battle of Neville's Cross: King David II of Scotland was captured by Edward III of England at Calais, and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years 1469 - Ferdinand II of Aragon marries Isabella of Castile.
		The governor of Cordoba, Abd-ar-Rahman, is killed during the battle.
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	PS101 Case Study: Treaty of Westphalia, 1648
		The summer of 1648 found several thousand diplomats, ministers, and other officials in two towns (Münster and Osnabrück) in Westphalia, an area in what is now northwestern Germany.
		The Protestant forces were routed at the Battle of White Mountain, near Prague, in 1620, and as Catholic fortunes rose on the battlefield, so too did the demands of the Catholic rulers to wipe out Protestantism in central Europe.
		A last gasp effort by the Spanish and Austrians was defeated by the French and Swedes, the latter fighting a battle for control of Prague, where the war had begun, thirty years earlier.
	www.iup.edu /politicalscience/courses/ps101/d-westph.htm (2206 words)

	WWW-VL: History Index: Military History
		The Battle of Marathon 490 B.C. The Battle of Marathon
		The Battle of Chaeronea 4 August 338 B.C. The Battle of Chaeronea Acccording to Diodorus Siculus
		The Sack of Magdeburg and the Battle of Breitenfeld 1631-1632
	vlib.iue.it /history/mil (1944 words)

	The Thirty Years War, 1618-1648
		In the Battle of Stadtlohn (Aug. 1623), a Bavarian army under Tilly defeated Christian of Braunschweig.
		War was resolved upon in May 1625, in April 1626 Mansfeld was defeated in the Battle of Dessau, in August 1626 Christian's Danish Army in the Battle of Lutter am Barenberge.
		In 1634 the Spanish interfered in southern central Germany, inflicting a rare defeat on the Swedes in the Battle of Nördlingen.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/17cen/xxxywar.html (2207 words)

	EUROPE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Sajo, battle of the, 27 April 1241 (Hungary)
		Drina, battle of the, 8-17 September 1914 (Serbia)
		Leipzig, battle of ('The Battle of Nations'), 16-18 October 1813
	www.rickard.karoo.net /country_europe.html (304 words)

	War
		For instance, 71 battle names appear under the War of the American Revolution and 166 campaigns and battles are listed for World War II; in addition, many more actions appear in the text.
		The lists of battles are intended as a guide, so that readers may trace the course of a war by its battles.
		Sudoner 1419 Prague 1420 Kutna Hora (Kuttenberg) 1422 Nemecky Brod 1422 Usti nad Labem 1426 Cesky-Brod 1434 War of the Roses 1455-85.
	mwooge.homestead.com /War.html (1261 words)

	Mini-Guide to Historic Prague
		Built in the mid-thirteenth century, it is the oldest intact Gothic house in Prague and now serves as an exhibition and concert hall, having been restored in the 1970s.
		Known as Prague's Little Venice, it is cut off from the city's left bank by a thin strip of water called the Devil's Stream.
		Many Czech historical events are connected with this place: including the declaration of the Czechoslovak Republic in 1918, the "Prague Spring" of 1968, and the Velvet Revolution in 1989 when the monument was used as a national political noticeboard.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/RJWinters/p-guide.htm (7720 words)

	Timeline Czech Republic
		The “official” Defenestration of Prague was the “official” trigger for the Thirty Year’s War.
		Weeks of plunder and pillage followed in Prague and after a few months the victors tortured and executed 27 nobles and other citizens and hung 12 heads on iron hooks from the Bridge Tower.
		1648 At the end of the Thirty years’ War the Swedes got to Prague and picked up the remains of works collected by Rudolf II and Albrecht von Wallenstein, leader of the Hapsburg armies.
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	What's your favourite Battle from 1500 - 1939? - www.ezboard.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Battle of the Plains of Abraham in 1759, perhaps the only time in history where a single small scale battle decided the ownership of an entire continent.
		The legendary battles on the mountains Tser and Rudnik, rivers Jadar, Drina and Kolubara were the first military successes of the Allied forces in the Great War.
		From this date forth naval battles would relly on artillery, that's why i have chosen it, since it was major turn over the classic naval battles.
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	WHKMLA : History of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown, 1618-1648
		Emperor Matthias could, under no circumstances, accept the loss of Bohemia, because it would mean, in addition to the loss of the rich Bohemian lands, the loss of the Imperial crown.
		The protestant noblemen of Bohemia and consuls of Prague were convicted of treason, sentenced to death and executed, their estates auctioned off.
		When the Swedes laid siege to Prague, the citizens staunchly defended their city, regarding the Swedes invaders, not liberators.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/region/germany/30yearsczech.html (660 words)

	WWW-VL History Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Death of Iilly, Wallenstein's Recall, th4e Siege of Nürnberg, the Swedish Triumph and the Battle of Lützen 1637
		The Heilbronn League, the Fall of Wallenstein, and the Battle of Nordlingen
		The Fall of the Heilbronn League and the Peace of Prague 1634-1635
	www.ku.edu /kansas/mil/30years.html (215 words)

	Tables of History : A.D. 1600 - 1699
		The Defenestration in Prague leads to the beginning of the Thirty Years' War.
		A bloody battle near Prague ends in a crushing defeat for the Bohemians, and Bohemia falls to the Habsburg Emperor, and thus to Spain.
		Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast of India is deeded to the Danish-Norwegian Crown by an agreement between the nayak of Tanjore and Christian IV (represented by Ove Gjedde).
	www.scholiast.org /history/timetables/1600s.html (949 words)

	Today in History May 6
		1648 May 6, Battle at Zolty Wody-Bohdan: Chmielricki's Cossacks beat John II Casimir.
		The climactic battle in Patrick O’Brian’s novel “Master and Commander” is based on the Speedy’s fight with El Gamo.
		1864 May 6, In the second day of the Battle of Wilderness between Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Gen. James Longstreet (d.1903) was wounded by his own men.
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	The History of the Thirty Years War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		-- The Battle of Prague and total subjection of Bohemia.
		Situation of Gustavus Adolphus after the Battle of Leipzig.
		-- Conquest of New Prague by Koenigsmark, and Termination of the Thirty Years' War.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/30ndx.htm (514 words)

	Emperor
		1648 Emperor Ferdinand III defeats Maximilian I of Bavaria
		378 Flavius Valens, emperor of Byzantium (364-78), dies in battle at 50
		218 Opellius Macrinus, emperor of Rome (217-8), dies in battle at 54
	www.brainyhistory.com /topics/e/emperor.html (5274 words)

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	Historical Moments for May 06 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Battle at Gogra: Mogol emperor Babur beats Afghans & Bengals
		Battle at Z¢lty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir
		Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
	www.todayinhistory.com /m05-06-event-results.html (139 words)

	Magic City Morning Star: May 6 - Today in History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1648 - Battle at Z¢lty Wody-Bohdan Chmielricki's Cossaks beat John II Casimir
		1757 - Battle at Prague: Frederik II of Prussia beats emperor army
		1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, Virginia
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