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 | | The Peace of Augsburg (1555) confirmed the result of the 1526 Diet of Speyer and ended the violence between the Lutherans and the Catholics in Germany. |
 | | Sablat also cost the Protestants an important ally — Savoy, long an opponent of Habsburg expansion, had already sent considerable sums to the Protestants and even troops to garrison fortresses in the Rhineland. |
 | | On August 6, 1623 Tilly's more disciplined army caught up with them 10 miles short of the Dutch border and here at the Battle of Stadlohn, he inflicted a catastrophic defeat to Christian and wiped out over four-fifths of his army, some 15,000 strong. |
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