The Battle of White Mountain on November 8, 1620 was the first major military conflict of the Thirty Years’ War. It ended the ambitions of the “Winter King” Frederick V of the Palatinate, whom the Bohemian estates had made king a few months earlier, and was the first major victory of the legendary general Johann T’Serclaes von Tilly. But the Czech defeat by the imperial troops had a much longer-lasting effect: over the centuries, it became a symbol of the oppression of the Czech nation – first by the Habsburgs, then by the Austrians and finally by the National Socialists. Even in the 21st century, reference is made to the White Mountain when Czech journalists and politicians sense the danger of an impending national catastrophe…
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