Qualla: Battle of Stadtlohn https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:34 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/z/battle-of-stadtlohn-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Stadtlohn https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn Battle of Stadtlohn: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn/ Photo credit Sebastiaen Vrancx, Public domain. They were five miles from the border. The Dutch frontier lay just over the next ridge of Westphalian fields, and the army that had been marching for weeks could see, on the maps and probably in their minds, the safety of the United Provinces close enough to count in minutes. They did not get there. At two in the afternoon on 6 August 1623, on a low rise outside the village of Stadtlohn, in an old parish boundary ditch called the Wuellener Landwehr, Christian of Brunswick's fifteen thousand Protestants were forced to turn and fight the Catholic League army that had been pursuing them since July. Six thousand of his soldiers would not see another sunset. Four thousand more would be taken prisoner.

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/z/battle-of-stadtlohn-wp/u1hz-battle-of-stadtlohn-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Stadtlohn: The Retreat from the Weser https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn/ Photo credit Sebastiaen Vrancx, Public domain. Christian of Brunswick was twenty-three years old, a son of the Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbuettel, and one of the most committed Protestant commanders of the war's early years. He had lost the Battle of Fleurus in 1622 and had spent the winter regrouping in the Dutch Republic. In s...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/z/battle-of-stadtlohn-wp/u1hz-battle-of-stadtlohn-the-retreat-from-the-weser.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Stadtlohn: Five Miles Short https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn/ Photo credit Sebastiaen Vrancx, Public domain. By early August Christian's rearguard was holding bridges only hours ahead of Tilly's vanguard. They held the Vechte at Metelen. They held the Dinkel at Heek. On the morning of 6 August, Tilly's leading troops, commanded by Johann Jakob, Count of Bronckhorst and Anholt, engaged t...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/z/battle-of-stadtlohn-wp/u1hz-battle-of-stadtlohn-five-miles-short.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Stadtlohn: The Hill at Two o'Clock https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn/ Photo credit Sebastiaen Vrancx, Public domain. The bombardment came first. Christian's men, on their hill, took it for as long as men can take it. Then Tilly's cavalry charged the right flank, broke it, and the Protestant horse routed. Once the cavalry was gone the infantry tried to run too. They did not get far. Tilly's army...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/z/battle-of-stadtlohn-wp/u1hz-battle-of-stadtlohn-the-hill-at-two-oclock.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Stadtlohn: What Happened to the Wounded https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn/ Photo credit Sebastiaen Vrancx, Public domain. After the killing came the aftermath that battles rarely record well. The captured artillery pieces were dragged to Coesfeld and put on display in the marketplace there. Some of the wounded enemy were carried to Muenster for treatment, the city's hospitals filling with men they h...

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]]> Sat, 16 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/h/z/battle-of-stadtlohn-wp/u1hz-battle-of-stadtlohn-what-happened-to-the-wounded.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Stadtlohn: An Empire Reshuffled https://qualla.com/battle-of-stadtlohn/ Photo credit Sebastiaen Vrancx, Public domain. When news reached Frederick V of the Palatinate, the man whose acceptance of the Bohemian crown had triggered this war in 1618, he had no choice but to sign an armistice with Emperor Ferdinand II. The Palatine phase of the Thirty Years' War was over. Frederick's lands and his sea...

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