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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Thirty Years War   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The election of the Catholic zealot Ferdinand, Archduke of Styria, as King of Bohemia caused the Bohemian Protestants to fear for their religious freedom, and in May 1618, at Hradcany castle, two Catholic councillors (Martinitz[?] and Slavata[?]) were thrown from the castle windows.
The Battle of White Mountain, near Prague in 1620 was a serious blow to Protestant ambitions in the region.
In 1632 Gustavus Adolphus dies at the Battle of Lützen (although the Swedes win the battle), and in 1634 the Swedes are defeated at the battle of Nordlingen, but they continue to fight in the war until the end in 1648.
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 Raimondo, count of Montecucculi - LoveToKnow 1911
He did good service at the first battle of Ndrdlingen (1634), and at the storming of Kaiserslautern in the following year won his colonelcy by a feat of arms of unusual brilliance, a charge through the breach at the head of his heavy cavalry.
He fought in Pomerania, Bohemia and Saxony (surprise of Wolmirstadt, battles of Wittstock and Chemnitz), and in 1639 he was taken prisoner at Melnik and detained for two and a half years in Stettin and Weimar.
The victory of Triebel in Silesia won him the rank of general of cavalry, and at the battle of Zusmarshausen in 1648 his stubborn rearguard fighting rescued the imperialists from annihilation.
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 Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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.
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 Rogers State University - Tradition. Innovation. Excellence
Edict of Restitution (1629) Battle of Lützen (1632)
Battles of Lexington and Concord (1775) Battle of Trenton (1776)
Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) Battle of Saratoga (1777)
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 Thirty Years' War
The catastrophic defeat of the Protestant army at White Mountain and the departure of Gabriel Bethlen meant that greater Bohemia was pacified.
The battle that insued was known as the Battle of Stadtlohn.
The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631).
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 Thirty_years'_war info here at en.archetecture.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The achievement of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631).
In 1645, the Swedish marshal Lennart Torstensson defeated the Imperial cavalry at the Battle of Jankau nigh Prague, and Louis II de Bourbon, Prince de Condé defeated the Bavarian cavalry 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 cavalry at the Battle of Zusmarshausen and Lens.
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 Turenne
But in May the Bavarians made a surprise attack, and half of Turenne's army was lost in the Battle of Marienthal (Mergentheim).
Battle of Nördlingen and reached the Danube River but with such heavy losses in infantry that they soon had to return to the Rhine.
Turenne had long been a master of "strategic chess moves," but he was bolder now; he offered battle more often and looked for opportunities when his more powerful adversaries were weakened by detachments.
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 Battle_of_Zusmarshausen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Battle 0f Zusmarshausen was fought on May 7 - 1648 between teh Holy Roman Empire & an alliance 0f France & Sweden inside teh modern Augsburg district 0f Bavaria - Germany.
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 Thirty Years' War - Wikipedia Mirror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
In the decades after the war, while Austria and its German allies were defending against the Ottoman Empire in the Great Turkish War (Battle of Vienna etc.), France under King Louis XIV used the occasion for aggressive expansion on both sides of the Rhine.
The catastrophic defeat of the Protestant army at White Mountain and the departure of Gabriel Bethlen meant the pacification of greater Bohemia.
Faced with this news, Frederick V, already in exile in The Hague and under growing pressure from his father-in-law James I of England to end his involvement in the war, was forced to abandon any hope of launching further campaigns.
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 Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2002023547   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Bernhard Sax-Weimar: The Battle of Rheinfelden 77 4.
The Battle of Rocroi: The War in Flanders and France 157 6.
Mercy and Turenne: The Battles of Freiburg and Second Nordlingen 197 7.
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 Battle Ground Washington - Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Illustrious People
Their united forces met the Bavarians in the Battle of Nördlingen and reached the Danube River but with such heavy losses in infantry that they soon had to return to the Rhine.
They tied themselves by treaty to the Spaniards, then at war with France, and waged war in Champagne until Turenne was completely defeated in the Battle of Rethel (Dec. 15, 1650) by superior forces under Marshal du Plessis-Praslin (César, later Duke de Choiseul) and narrowly escaped capture.
His victory enabled him to hand Dunkirk over to France's English allies and allowed him to move freely in Flanders, taking Ypres and threatening Ghent and Brussels.
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 V. The final French phase
On 6 September 1634 at the Battle of Nördlingen the outnumbered Swedish troops, commanded by Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, were soundly defeated by the Imperial forces under the joint command of Ferdinand II's son, Ferdinand, and General Matthias Count Gallas (1584-1645).
Although Sweden's army in Germany was defeated at the Battle of Nördlingen, the Swedes retained many heavily fortified citadels in Germany.
Their decisive defeat at the Battle of Rocroi marked the end of an era.
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 iaokim network   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Battle of Covadonga - 722 - Moslem Conquest of Spain
Battle of Neaje - 1016- Olaf II of Norway
Battle of Warsaw (1939), at the outset of World War II Battle of Warsaw (1944), near the end of World War II Battle of Waterloo - 1815 - War of the Seventh Coalition
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 The Last Valley
He then dies of his battle wounds without any intervention from the villagers.
1631 -- at the Battle of Breitenfeld, Adolphus' forces defeated the Catholic League led by General Tilly.
1648 -- the Swedes and the French defeated the Imperial army at the Battle of Zusmarshausen and Lens, which left only the Imperial territories of Austria safely in Habsburg hands.
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 Wargaming Scandinavian Battles
You may well find that the army did not fight many battles in its home country, especially if it was a successful army, but campaigned away from home.
Battles of the Thirty Years' War: From White Mountain to Nordlingen, 1618-1635
The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
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