The storming of Bristol 1645.

 

Thursday 26th March 2026, 8pm.

Battlefields Trust Online Talk:

This talk will look at the strategic importance of Bristol, the siege itself, and the impact its loss had on the Royalists, Prince Rupert, and Charles I. What did this victory mean for Parliament and why did this event mark the beginning of the end for the Royalist cause?

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Campaign of 1626

 

From Golo Mann's book Wallenstein.

John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar

Died in 1626

Steel Fist miniatures German Peasants' War

Steel Fist Miniatures
 

View of the siege and capture of the city of Heidelberg by the troops of the Catholic League in September 1622

 September 1622 – September 2022: 400 Jahre Eroberung Heidelbergs im Dreißigjährigen Krieg

Siege of Heidelberg (1622) - Wikipedia

The leader of the English forces Gerard Herbert was killed. Sir Simonds d'Ewes wrote of the account he received from Sir Dudley North, that Herbert "was slaine after three pikes first valiantlye brooken, being then shott in the head. This hapned through the cowardice of the Dutchmen in the outworkes, as he fullye dilated it to mee."^[3]

Heidelberg 1670, von Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde

 

Surviving the Battle 1631 - The Sack of Magdeburg

 English language. 

Tilly portrait

 This is a great painting of Tilly which incidentally is the name of my daughter-in-law's dog but I don't think she is a fan of the monk in armour. 

Johann Tserclaes Graf von Tilly (Gemälde) - Bayerisches Nationalmuseum

He was very active 400 years ago. Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly - Wikipedia

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly (Dutch: Johan t'Serclaes Graaf van Tilly; German: Johann t'Serclaes Graf von Tilly; French: Jean t'Serclaes de Tilly; February 1559 – 30 April 1632) was a field marshal who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War. From 1620 to 1631, he won an unmatched and demoralizing string of important victories against the Protestants, 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.