thirty years' war in English

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a European war of 1618–48 that broke out between the Catholic Holy Roman Emperor and some of his German Protestant states and developed into a struggle for continental hegemony with France, Sweden, Spain, and the Holy Roman Empire as the major protagonists. It was ended by the Treaty of Westphalia.

Use "thirty years war" in a sentence

1. This Danish phase of the Thirty Years’ War lasted from 1625 to 1629.

2. During the Thirty Years War, the Abbess fled with its treasure to Cologne.

3. During the Thirty Years' War, the castle was sacked by the Swedish army (1643).

4. The treaty concluded the Thirty Years’ War, and with it most of the hostilities ended.

5. Meanwhile, the Thirty Years' War had left German-speaking Europe exhausted, fragmented, and economically backward.

6. Even Wallenstein was customer of the gunsmiths Georg and Balthasar Klett in Suhl during the Thirty Years' War.

7. Division also ignited the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48), a series of cruel religious wars that ravaged Europe.

8. Elector of Brandenburg ('40-' who reorganized and rebuilt his domain after its devastation in the Thirty Years' War.

9. At the conclusion of the Thirty Years' War, the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 granted Sweden territories as war reparations.

10. During the Thirty Years' War, Sweden managed to conquer approximately half of the member states of the Holy Roman Empire.

11. His descendants produced small guns during the Thirty Years' War, and eventually acquired fulling mills, coal mines, and an iron forge.

12. Boy was first given to Prince Rupert when he was imprisoned in the fortress of Linz during the Thirty Years War.

13. Cuirassiers played a prominent role in the Thirty Years War, commanded by Field Marshal Gottfried Pappenheim (1594-1632) and Albrecht Wallenstein (1583-1634)

14. In 1621 it was besieged by the Spanish during the Thirty Years' War, and then successively occupied by troops of the opposing sides.

15. Gustavus Adolphus was the main figure responsible for the success of Swedish arms during the Thirty Years' War and led his nation to great prestige.

16. He supported high church Anglican ecclesiastics, such as Richard Montagu and William Laud, and failed to aid Protestant forces successfully during the Thirty Years' War.

17. During the Thirty Years' War Augustus always remained neutral, however, billeting and Alimenting foreign troops marching through posed a heavy burden onto the ducal subjects

18. And King Gustav Adolph II of Sweden, who fought in the Thirty Years’ War, is thought to have worn the armor shown on page 7.

19. The numbers up until the end of the Thirty Years War are based on an estimate of either the number of households or the number of adult males.

20. At the peace of Miinster, which ended the Thirty Years War in 1648, Spain was Cynically thrown over by the German Habsburgs for whom she had sacrificed so much.

21. With Alsace becoming French at the end of the Thirty Years' War, the castle welcomed troops who blew it up in 1637 to prevent it falling into the hands of an Austrian army.

22. John Sarkander was a priest who was tortured to death in Olomouc prison in the beginning of the Thirty Years' War, because he, as the legend says, refused to break the seal of confession.

23. Queen Christina of Sweden's important library (mostly amassed by her generals as booty from Habsburg Prague and German cities during the Thirty Years War) was bought by Pope Alexander VIII on her death in 1689.

24. Cravat (n.) "type of neck-cloth worn usually by men," 1650s, from French Cravate (17c.), from Cravate, literally "Croatian," from German Krabate, from Serbo-Croatian Hrvat "a Croat" (see Croat).Cravats came into fashion 1650s in imitation of linen scarves worn by the Croats or Crabats, 17th-century light cavalry forces who fought on the side of the Catholic League in the Thirty Years' War.