Europe 1598-1715

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR Character of the Bohemian Revolution ? Help senl by Savoy and the Silesians ? Accession of Ferdinand of Styria ? Revolt in Austria ? Ferdinand elected Emperor, deposed as King of Bohemia ? Acceptance by Frederick, Elector Palatine, of the Crown of Bohemia ?...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE BEGINNING OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR Character of the Bohemian Revolution ? Help senl by Savoy and the Silesians ? Accession of Ferdinand of Styria ? Revolt in Austria ? Ferdinand elected Emperor, deposed as King of Bohemia ? Acceptance by Frederick, Elector Palatine, of the Crown of Bohemia ? Alienation of England and the Lutheran Princes from Frederick ? Bavaria, Spain, and Saxony support Ferdinand? Battle of the White Mountain ? Settlement of Bohemia and Silesia ? Conquest of the Palatinate ? The Electorate transferred to Bavaria ? The war spreads to the north?Interference of England and Denmark ? Wal- lenstein raises an army for the Emperor ? His character and views ? Campaigns of 1626-1627 ? Defeat of Denmark ? Peace of Liibeck ? Edict of Restitution ?New questions raised by the success of Wallenstein and the issue of the Edict. It is probable that when count Thurn and his companions threw the regents out of the window at Prague, they only intended to snap the cord which bound Bohemia character of and the House of Austria together, and pictured to the Bohemian themselves as the result of their rash act an inde- Revolution- pendent Protestant Bohemia, ruled by themselves and their brother nobles under the nominal sovereignty of a puppet king of their own choosing. At first it seemed as if they were right. Germany was inclined to let king and rebellious subjects fight out the battle by themselves. John George of Saxony and Maximilian of Bavaria refused to interfere. Spain promised aid but did not send it. Matthias and Ferdinand had but fourteen thousand men under Bucquoi, a Spanish general who had served with distinction in the Netherlands, upon whom to rely. Behind that army lay an empty treasury and a discontented people. If the Bohemian revolution h...