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cardinal Years WarThe thirty Years War was a series of wars 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 trio of Spain attempted to continue the foreign policy views of his father, Philip II, which basically meant that Spain had to be unplowed ready for war. Thus in 1618, when Ferdinand II, heir apparent to the throne of Bohemia, began to lather certain religious privileges enjoyed by his subjects there, they immediately appealed for aid to the Protestants in the lodge in of the empire and to the leading foreign Protestant states Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Denmark (Trueman). blush though the war between the German Catholics and German Protestants were all in the Holy Roman Empire were both Christian it slowly lot was more of a fight over the balance of power.There were two sides in the Thirty Years War the P rotestant League and the Catholic League. The Protestant League consisted of Frederick of Bohemia who was the leader of the Protestant princes, Denmark led by magnate Christian IV, Sweden led by king Gustavus Adolphus, and the Netherlands led by the home base of orange all financially supported 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 discussion, Swedish intervention, and the French intervention (Thomas).In the Bohemian phase a group of Bohemian Protestants captured the governors of prague and threw them break through of the palace w... ...ing both flanks the remaining infantry moved to attack the Tercio of Naples (the better unit in the Spanish army). The German infantry failed horrendously, and the Spanish veterans held their objec t due to some help from the musketeers in the woods. The spanish managed to wound Brunswick and covey his army off the field. The Protestants lost 3,000, 500 were wounded, and 1,500 captured. The spanish couldnt run through asked for a better fight. The Spanish suffered 300 dead and 900 wounded. The following twenty-four hours 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 numbers dont discipline its the strategy and will of the people to protect their way of life.