White Mountain or
White Hill, Czech
Bílá Hora, hill near Prague, Czech Republic. There, in Nov., 1620, the Czech Protestants under
Christian of Anhalt were routed by the combined armies of the empire and of the Catholic League, under Tilly. The battle ended the independence of Bohemia for 300 years and was the first engagement of the
Thirty Years War.
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