The Assassination of Wallenstein: A Pivotal Moment in the Thirty Years’ War
The Thirty Years War, ostensibly beginning as a religious one, engaged nearly every European country in one way or another. The major forces involved were Sweden (supported by France), and the Hapsburg Empire, and the brunt was borne mainly by the German provinces and the Czech lands. Wallenstein had been a successful, if difficult to control, commander of the Austrian...
Irish Franciscans in Prague
The Franciscans, fleeing from religious persecution in Ireland, had first arrived in the Czech capital in 1629 at a time of great conflict – the Thirty Years War had started in Prague just ten years previously and was still to rage throughout Europe for another twenty desperate years. With the financial assistance of Irish military officers engaged in the war...
Battle of Prague
History of the battle Maximilian Ulysses Browne (Reichsgraf von Browne, Baron de Camus and Mountany, 1705 - 1757) was a scion of the Irish Wild Geese and rose to high military positions in the Austrian army. At the time of the Prussian monarch Frederik the Great's attack on Prague in May 1757 he had risen to the rank of field...