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Born May 11, 1568 • Bernburg • Germany
Died April 17, 1630 (aged 61) • Bernburg • Germany
Role In Battle of White Mountain
Tilly, detail from an engraving by G. Kölez, 1631
Johann Tserclaes, count von Tilly
Bavarian general
Ernst, count von Mansfeld
German general
Frederick V, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, c. 1620; in the Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Speyer, Ger.
Frederick V
elector Palatine of the Rhine
Albert
Albert
king of Saxony
Leopold von Gerlach, detail from a lithograph
Leopold von Gerlach
Prussian general
Hans von Arnim, detail from an engraving by Martin Bernigeroth after an oil painting by an unknown artist
Hans Georg von Arnim
German soldier and statesman
Orlov, Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince
Aleksey Fyodorovich, Prince Orlov
Russian prince
Fyodor Vasilyevich, Count Rostopchin
Russian statesman
Andrey Mikhaylovich, Prince Kurbsky
Russian military commander
Grigory Grigoryevich, Count Orlov
Grigory Orlov
Russian military officer
Patrick Gordon
Scottish mercenary
Jan Zamoyski
Polish politician
Koniecpolski, engraving by Anton Tepplar after a painting by Martin Altomonte
Stanisław Koniecpolski
Polish military leader
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
Swedish statesman
Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.
Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul
French general
Henry, 1st duke and 4th earl of Lancaster
English soldier and diplomat [1300-1361]
Nguyen Tri Phuong
Vietnamese general
Louis de Durfort, 2nd earl of Feversham
British military officer
Alvensleben-Erxleben, Gustav, graf von
Gustav, count von Alvensleben-Erxleben
Prussian general
Gilbert Motier de La Fayette
marshal of France