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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;talerman, post: 6530968, member: 89314&quot;]Germany FRANKENTHAL&nbsp; Uniface Siege 15 Batzenklippe 1623</p><p><br /></p><p>At the start of the 30 Years war, the Emperor had defeated Friedrich, the Elector Palatine, the Protestant choice as King of Bohemia (and James I of England&#039;s son-in law) at the Battle of White Mountain on 8 Nov. 1620. In January he placed him under the Imperial ban which made him an outlaw&nbsp; and his lands subject to seizure. Some English troops under Sir Horace Vere had been sent from the Netherlands to help Friedrich.&nbsp; Vere put a garrison in Frankenthal under Sir John Burroughs. When the Palatinate campaign began, a Spanish army under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba laid siege to the city and its mostly English garrison in Sept. 1621. Warned of the approach of a Protestant army commanded by Mansfeld, Córdoba&nbsp; raised the siege on 12 October. However. in the summer of 1622 the Imperial army returned under Don Fransisco Verdugo and laid siege to Frankenthal again.&nbsp; The siege lasted until March 20, 1623, when King James I ordered the city to surrender.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1261335[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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