1. Thirty years war
... 1,500 troops in casualties or captured. This was a great Catholic victory. General Ambrogio di Spinola sent a 20,000-man army from the Spanish Netherlands to be under the direction of Gonzales de Cordoba to occupy Mainz. Kreuznach, Oppenheim and other Rhine strong points in the fall of 1621. Europe had expected that the struggle between Catholic and Protestant would be renewed ... ...
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