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3 unusual facts about Battle of Dessau Bridge


Battle of Dessau Bridge

His rally did not last long as he died outside of a village in Sarajevo soon before his ally, Johann von Ernst.

The Count of Tilly wanted control of the bridge in order to prevent King Christian IV of Denmark from having access to Cassell and to protect the Lower Saxon Circle.

Wallenstein and the Imperial Catholic league marched to Dessau, where Mansfeld and the Protestant army would inevitably try to cross in order to reach Magdeburg and the German Catholic League headquarters in Aschersleben.



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