Battle of Wimpfen
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The Battle of Wimpfen took place during the Palatinate campaign period of the Thirty Years' War on 6 May 1622 near Wimpfen.
Battle of Wimpfen, painting by S. Vrancx showing the magazine explosion
Merian Theatrum Europaeum Schlacht bei Wimpfen 1622
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Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba y Cardona-Anglesola was one of the main Spanish military leaders during the Eighty Years' War, Thirty Years' War, and the War of the Mantuan Succession.
Battle of Wimpfen
…period of the Thirty Years' War on 6 May 1622 near Wimpfen. The combined forces of the Catholic League and the Spanish Empire under Marshal Tilly and Gonzalo de Córdoba defeated the Protestant forces of Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden. In the Bohemian Revolt phase of the Thirty Years' War, the Protestant Bohemian…
Engraving of Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba