Sack of Prague

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.

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