Mercenaries in Bohemia, the Rhineland, the Low Countries, 1618–1625 II

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Scots in Swedish Thirty Years’ War service. John Seton and his musketeers were still in Bohemia. After occupying the town of Prachatice and the country as far east as Neuhaus, they had been forced back by the advancing Imperial armies to Wittingau (now Trebon) and had been there since September. In July 1621 only two places held out against the…

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