Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly
Field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces (1559-1632) in the Thirty Years' War
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GermanyFor eleven years he was the anvil that broke Protestant armies across central Europe — an unbroken string of Catholic League victories that seemed to prove God had chosen a side, until a Swedish king's forces shattered the myth at Breitenfeld.
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Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly commanded the Catholic League's forces through the Thirty Years' War's bloodiest decade. Between 1620 and 1631 he delivered crushing victories at White Mountain, Wimpfen, Höchst, Stadtlohn, and across the Palatinate; he destroyed a Danish army at Lutter and held the Protestant cause at bay through sheer tactical dominance. The sack of Magdeburg in 1631 killed some 20,000 of the city's 25,000 inhabitants, defenders and civilians alike, and became the war's blackest symbol. That same year Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden crushed Tilly's army at Breitenfeld, ending the…
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