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Peter Ernst von Mansfeld
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Peter Ernst von Mansfeld , 1580?-1626, military commander...beginning of the Thirty Years War, Mansfeld and his army were loaned by his employer...before the battle of the White Mt., Mansfeld refused further service. A promise...
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Thirty Years War
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...severe repression began in Bohemia. The Palatinate Period Mansfeld and Christian of Brunswick led the revolutionary forces in...of Wallenstein , who gathered an effective army and defeated Mansfeld at Dessau (1626). A little later the Danish king was soundly...
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Johannes Tserklaes Tilly, count of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...the war, centering about the Palatinate, Tilly was chief commander against Ernst von Mansfeld , Christian of Brunswick , and others. He lost to Mansfeld (Apr., 1622), but won at Wimpfen (May) and Höchst (June) and also at...
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Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Danish phase of the war. Wallenstein in 1626 defeated Ernst von Mansfeld at the Dessau bridgehead, and some of his men helped Tilly...Lutter. The next year Wallenstein destroyed the remnants of Mansfeld's army and later defeated Christian IV's forces. Now at...
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Martin Luther
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the owner of several small mines, to become a small-scale entrepreneur. In 1490 Martin was sent to the Latin school at Mansfeld, in 1497 to Magdeburg, and in 1498 to Eisenach. His early education was typical of late-15th-century practice. To a...
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George Villiers Buckingham, 1st duke of
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...of France. He was also blamed for the disastrous failure (Feb.-Mar., 1625) of an English expedition, under Graf von Mansfeld, to recover the Palatinate for Frederick the Winter King ; Buckingham failed to supply it adequately. By this time Charles...
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Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar , 1604-39, Protestant general in the Thirty Years War , duke of Weimar. Under Ernst von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden, Bernhard fought against the imperial forces in defense (1622) of the Palatinate. He served...
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Luther, Martin (1483–1546)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...of his time. He was born on 10 November 1483 to Hans and Margarethe Luther in the town of Eisleben and went to school in Mansfeld and Magdeburg and then in Eisenach. His father was in the copper mining business, and wanted Martin to become a lawyer...
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Gottfried Benn
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...work as a physician, he demonstrated brutal anti-sentimentalism in both his poetry and prose. Gottfried Benn was born at Mansfeld, Prussia, the son of a Lutheran minister. The poet's earliest influences were the stern discipline of his father, whom...
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Wallenstein, A. W. E. von (Originally Waldstein; 1583–1634)
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...x2013; 1629), Wallenstein enjoyed considerable military success. He defeated the Protestant commander, Count Ernst of Mansfeld, at Dessau in 1626, and early in 1627 he marched into Holstein and Jutland (the Danish mainland) before turning east into...
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