Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly

✶February 1, 1559

†April 30, 1632

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Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly was a field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War. From 1620 to 1631, he led a number of important imperial victories, including White Mountain, Wimpfen, Höchst, Stadtlohn and the Conquest of the Palatinate. He destroyed a Danish army at Lutter and sacked the Protestant city of Magdeburg, which caused the deaths of some 20,000 of the city's inhabitants, both defenders and non-combatants, out of a total population of 25,000.

field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces (1559-1632) in the Thirty Years' War

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