Brno during the Swedish siege

 Siege of Brno - Wikipedia

Artist	Hieronymus Benno Bayer, Hans Jörg Zeiser
Title	Brno during the Swedish siege (image section)

File:Veduta z obléhání Brna Švédy v roce 1645.jpg - Wikimedia Commons

 

The Battle of Jankau,^[a] took place on 6 March 1645 during the later stages of the Thirty Years' War, near Jankov in Bohemia (today the Czech Republic). It featured Swedish and Imperial armies, each containing around 16,000 men.

The more mobile and better led Swedes under Lennart Torstensson effectively destroyed their opponents, commanded by Melchior von Hatzfeldt. However, the devastation caused by decades of conflict meant armies now spent much of their time obtaining supplies, and the Swedes were unable to take advantage of their victory.

Christian IV's Arsenal

As we are in the 400th of the Danish phase of the TYW I thought we could look at the Arsenal.

Today Christian IV's Arsenal houses the Tøjhus Museum, a museum of weapons and military history, while the site of the former naval harbour has become the Royal Library Garden.

Flick through Lion from the North Vol. 1

 

Wheellock pistols.

I run a page on Facebook called Thirty Years War reenactment and someone was asking for a reasonably priced repro. I found the The Rifle Shoppe, Inc. - Wheellocks so aome but if you know of any let me know.
 Thirty Years War Reenactment Facebook

Old Guard Manufacture do one I see. Facebook

Christian IV, king of Denmark and Norway; a picture of the seventeenth century by Gade, John A. (John Allyne), 1875-1955

 400 years ago was a time when he was active in the 30 YW. In Denmark they call the TYW phase Kejserkrigen

Hungarian Hussars 17th century

 been trying to find out about Hungarian Hussars - if you know more get in touch. This image is by Bruno Mugnai from the Helion book on White Mountain.

Hussar - Wikipedia

The following is from the Imperialist Army 2 Cavalry Osprey.

Hussars.  Differentiating between regular and irregular units of Hungarian and Croat light cavalry has been difficult even for Hungarian historians, and is confused by nomenclature. In this period, the term 'huszar' meant any Hungarian cavalryman, of whichever branch. However, it usually refers to the lightly armoured cavalry which had come to prominence in Europe in the mid-16th century. Like the Croats, they were raised from irregulars on the Military Frontier, as mercenary bands organized by local nobles, fighting alongside Hayduk infantry under an Ober-Hauptmann. As the Thirty Years' War began, 6 units each of 500-1,000 hussars - Esterhazy, Palffy, Forgach, Somogyi, Nadasdy, and the Raab hussars under Lengyel -were raised by local magnates in 1619. However, the number soon fell, and in 1624 the term hussar vanished from the army lists for a decade. It was only in 1630 that two new units were raised, joined by a third the following year. In 1632 Graf Stephan Palffy raised 1,000 Hungarian (hussar-) lancers. Organized like their Croatian counterparts, the first regular hussar regiments were raised in 1634, and thereafter there were always two or three in Imperial service until the end of the wars.