1. Thirty years war
Going against their Catholic king, the Bohemian Protestants decided to call in outside help from Ferdinand of Austria. ... 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. ... To the north an beyond the Neckard river an army led by Christian of Brunswick stood ready to help the Protestant forces. ... The young Protestant leader with his 12,000 men was in desperate need of help. ... In 1636, Spanish invasions of French territory were repelled. ...
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