The Battle of Jankau was fought by the Swedish army SSE of Prague in "Bohemia" (part of present-day Czech Republic) on February 23, 1645 during the Thirty Years' War. The Finnish Hakkapeliitta cavalry saw action there. February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... // Events January 10 - Archbishop Laud executed on Tower Hill, London. ... The victory of Gustavus Adolphus at the Battle of Breitenfeld (1631) The Thirty Years War was a conflict fought between the years 1618 and 1648, principally on the territory of todays Germany, but also involving most of the major continental powers. ... Hakkapeliitta (also known as Hackapelit, Hackapelite, Haccapelit or Haccapelite), was the name given in Germany to the Finnish horsemen of King Gustav II Adolph of Sweden (known as a Sweden-Finland in contemporary Finnish language) during the Thirty Years War. ...
The battle began at dawn: the French infantry was worsted by the Spanish, and the cavalry on the French left was also ineffective.
It was also the first major defeat in battle of a Spanish army in a century, although historians have noted that Melo's German, Walloon, and Italian troops were the first to surrender while the Spanish infantry cracked only after repeated cavalry charges and a vicious spell under the French guns.
Count Bucquoy, the commander of the Austrian army, defeated the forces of the Protestant Union at the Battle of Sablat, led by Count Mansfeld, on 10 June 1619.
Mannheim and Heidelberg fell in 1622, and Frankenthal in 1623.
Wallenstein defeated Mansfeld's army at the Battle of the Bridge of Dessau (1626) and General Tilly defeated the Danes at the Battle of Lutter (1626).
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