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Thirty Years struggleThe Thirty Years war was a series of warfares fought in the Holy Roman empire, involving most of the countries within, the war lasted 30 years. This war massively affected europe and created a cultural divide between catholics and protestants. Philip III of Spain attempted to continue the foreign insurance policy views of his father, Philip II, which basically meant that Spain had to be kept ready for war. Thus in 1618, when Ferdinand II, inheritor apparent to the throne of Bohemia, began to slash certain religious privileges enjoyed by his subjects there, they outright appealed for aid to the Protestants in the rest of the empire and to the leading foreign Protestant states Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark (Trueman). Even though the war between the German Catholics and German Protestants were all in the Holy Roman Empire were two Christian it slowly spread was more of a fight all over the balance of power. in that respect were two sides in the Thirty Years War the Protestant League and the Catholic League. The Protestant League consisted of Frederick of Bohemia who was the leader of the Protestant princes, Denmark led by big businessman Christian IV, Sweden led by king Gustavus Adolphus, and the Netherlands led by the house of orange all financially back up by king of France Louis XIII. The Catholic League consisted of the leader Duke Maximillian of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empire Led by Emperor Ferdinand II, and king of Spain Philip IV (Billiet). There were five major phases of the Thirty Years War the Bohemian Revolt, Palatinate phase, danish pastry intervention, Swedish intervention, and the French intervention (Thomas).In the Bohemian phase a group of Bohemian Protestants captured the governors of prague and threw them out of the palace w... ...ing both flanks the stay invertebrate foot moved to attack the Tercio of Naples (the best unit in the Spanish army). The German infantry failed horrendously, and the Spanis h veterans held their ground due to some help from the musketeers in the woods. The spanish managed to wound Brunswick and drove his army off the field. The Protestants lost 3,000, vitamin D were wounded, and 1,500 captured. The spanish couldnt have asked for a better fight. The Spanish suffered ccc dead and 900 wounded. The following twenty-four hour period the Spanish cavalry obliterated the remaining Protestant infantry as they marched. Of the 24,000 men that left the Palatine that day only 3,000 Protestant cavalry managed to reach the next town (Thomas). As shown many times in historical past battles like the persians vs. the greeks verse dont matter its the strategy and will of the people to entertain their way of life.