Bitva na Bílé hoře
Battlefield · Czechia
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Riders crossing this quiet plateau west of Prague are crossing a battlefield where a single hour reshaped Central Europe for two centuries. On 8 November 1620, roughly 21,000 Bohemian and allied Protestant troops under Christian of Anhalt, fighting for the newly elected King Frederick V, were routed here by 23,000 Imperial and Catholic League troops under Bucquoy and Tilly, losing about 2,800 men to the Imperials' 650. Frederick fled Prague after barely a year on the throne, earning him the nickname "Winter King", and the defeat led to the trial and public execution of 27 rebel leaders in Prague's Old Town Square, the exile of most of the Bohemian nobility, and two centuries of enforced re-Catholicization. The low hilltop itself, spared later development, is marked only by a modest stone mound raised by the Sokol movement in 1920, standing alone in a round field. Nearby, the star-shaped Renaissance Hvězda summer palace holds a small exhibition with a tin-figure model of the battle in its basement, and the Church of Our Lady Victorious was built to commemorate the Catholic victory.
From Wikipedia
The Battle of White Mountain was fought on 8 November 1620 outside Prague in the early stages of the Thirty Years' War. An army backing Frederick V led by Christian of Anhalt was defeated by forces supporting his rival Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, under Bucquoy and Count Tilly. Imperial forces entered Prague on 9 November and Frederick fled into Silesia.