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White Mountain, Battle of

Years: 1620 - 1620

The Battle of White Mountain, an important battle in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War, is fought on November 8, 1620 (New Style calendar).

An army of fifteen thousand Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt is defeated by twenty-seven thousand men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor led by Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, and the German Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, at Bílá Hora ("White Mountain") near Prague.

The battle marks the end of the Bohemian period of the Thirty Years' War and decisively influences the fate of the Czech lands for the next three hundred years

Its aftermath drastically changes the religious landscape of the Czech lands after two centuries of Protestant dominance.

Roman Catholicism will retain a majority in the Czech lands until the late twentieth century.

“The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward...This is not a philosophical or political argument—any oculist will tell you this is true. The wider the span, the longer the continuity, the greater is the sense of duty in individual men and women, each contributing their brief life's work to the preservation..."

― Winston S. Churchill, Speech (March 2, 1944)