Prague was captured and sacked twice in the Thirty Years' War, right at the start, and right at the end:
- in 1620 by Habsburg troops, after the Battle of White Mountain
- in 1648 by Swedish troops, after the Battle of Prague (1648); they did not capture the whole city - this is the more likely reference.
Famous quotes containing the words sack of and/or sack:
“Lincoln, six feet one in his stocking feet,
The lank man, knotty and tough as a hickory rail,
Whose hands were always too big for white-kid gloves,
Whose wit was a coonskin sack of dry, tall tales,
Whose weathered face was homely as a plowed field.”
—Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943)
“Say the woman is forty-four.
Say she is five seven-and-a-half.
Say her hair is stick color.
Say her eyes are chameleon.
Would you put her in a sack and bury her,
suck her down into the dumb dirt?”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)