The Battle of Wisternitz or Dolní Věstonice was fought on August 5, 1619 between a Moravia

Moravia

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n force and an Austria

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n army under Dampierre. The battle was a Moravian victory. The battle is part of the Thirty Years' War

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České Budějovice

Ceské Budejovice

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 was one of the three towns which remained loyal to the Austrian emperor when Bohemia revolted. After the Austrian victory at Sablat, the Bohemians were forced to raise the siege of České Budějovice. On 15 June 1619, Hohenlohe

Georg Friedrich of Hohenlohe-Neuenstein-Weikersheim

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 retreated to Soběslav

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 where he awaited reinforcement by count Heinrich Matthias von Thurn

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After taking control of the strong places of southern Bohemia, emperor Ferdinand II.

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 sent a force under Dampierre to Moravia, which had chosen the side of the Bohemian rebels. However, Dampierre was defeated at Dolní Věstonice

Dolní Vestonice

Dolní Věstonice is a small village in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. It is known for a series of ice age archaeological sites in the area. These sites were used by mammoth hunters, and finds include a triple burial and the Venus of Dolní Věstonice.A small fortress was built here...

  by Moravian forces under Fridrich von Tiefenbach and Ladislav Velen ze Žerotína in August 1619, which left Moravia

Moravia

Moravia is a historical region in Central Europe in the east of the Czech Republic, and one of the former Czech lands, together with Bohemia and Silesia. It takes its name from the Morava River which rises in the northwest of the region...

in the Bohemian camp.