WHITE MOUNTAIN, BATTLE OF


Meaning of WHITE MOUNTAIN, BATTLE OF in English

(1620) Decisive battle near Prague at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War .

The Catholic forces of Maximilian I , duke of Bavaria, commanded by count von Frederick V , king of Bohemia. By the defeat, Bohemia lost its independence, and Protestantism was exterminated until 1648.

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