In 1631, during the Thirty Years ' War, imperial troops under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, stormed the city and committed a massacre, killing about 20, 000 inhabitants and burning the town in the sack of Magdeburg.

* Count Tilly, Catholic League commander in the Thirty Years ' War

* Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ( 1559 – 1632 ), German nobleman and co-Supreme commander of the forces of the Holy Roman Empire

* April 30 – Thirty Years ' War – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly and commander of the Catholic League armies, dies from wounds sustained at the battle of Rain.

* April 30 – Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly, Bavarian general ( b. 1559 )

Spanish troops under Gastañaga joined the main Allied army, as did the Count of Tilly with troops from Liège and Brandenburg on 22 July.

The Battle of White Mountain, 8 November 1620 ( Bílá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech ) was an early battle in the Thirty Years ' War in which an army of 30, 000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 27, 000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy and the German Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly at Bílá Hora, near Prague ( now part of the city ).

King Frederick and his military commander, Prince Christian of Anhalt, had organized a Protestant army of 30, 000 men ; Ferdinand countered with a force of 25, 000, many of them seasoned soldiers, under the expert leadership of Field Marshal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, a Catholic Spanish-Flemish nobleman.

Tilly's force was made up of two distinct groups: Imperial troops commanded by Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, and soldiers of the German Catholic League, directly under Tilly.

However, Ernst von Mansfeld continued to occupy a portion of the Upper Palatinate and had successfully resisted efforts by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly to dislodge him.

Heidelberg is taken by the forces of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ( 1559 – 1632 ) on 19 September 1622.

The Battle of Mingolsheim () was fought on April 27, 1622, near the German village of Wiesloch, 14 miles south of Heidelberg ( and 5 miles south of Wiesloch ), between a Protestant army under General von Mansfeld and the margrave of Baden against a Roman Catholic army under Count Tilly.

Combined, the armies aimed to prevent a link-up between Count Tilly and Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba

* In the Battle of Rain in April 1632, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden defeated and mortally wounded Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly.

On 30 April 1632, the German field marshal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly died at Ingolstadt during a Swedish siege of the city.

* Roman Catholic troops of Imperial Field Marschal Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly committed the Sack of Magdeburg in 1631.

As a result of his many years of professional experience he was greatly valued by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, and was often assigned the most critical tasks, such as the defence of Neubrandenburg in 1631 ( where he was captured by the forces of Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly ) and command of the Sweden's most important military supply base in central Germany at Nuremberg in 1632.

Count Tilly, Captain of the Cavalry of the Hague.

In order to aid Ferdinand ( elected Holy Roman Emperor in 1619 ) against the Northern Protestants and to produce a balance in the Army of the Catholic League under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Wallenstein offered to raise a whole army for the imperial service following the bellum se ipsum alet principle, and received his final commission on 25 July 1625.

Bronze statue of Count Tilly in the Feldherrnhalle on Odeonsplatz in Munich

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly () ( February 1559 – 30 April 1632 ), commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years ' War.

Count Tilly, Johann Tserclaes then fought the Danish at the Battle of Lutter on 26 – 27 August 1626 in which his highly disciplined infantry charged the enemy lines four times whereupon they broke through, leading him to win decisively, and destroying more than half the fleeing Danish army ; as was uncharacteristic of warfare of the times.

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The rebellious citizens, headed by Count Gregory I of Tusculum, besieged Otto III in his palace on the Palatine Hill and then drove him from the city.

In 1770, Kastro was besieged by Count Orlov during the Russo-Turkish War of 1768 – 1774.

Only in the summer of 882, Vienne was taken after being besieged by Richard, Count of Autun.

Frederick the Great's 29, 000 Prussians prevented Field Marshal Maximilian Ulysses Count Browne 34, 500 Austrians from relieving their besieged Saxon allies during the Siege of Pirna, who surrendered two weeks later.

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Defeated by Count Jindrich Matyas Thurn on 9 November in the Battle of Lomnice, he was unable to save the besieged town of Pilsen.

In July 1635, Imperial troops under Matthias Gallas, Count of Campo, successfully besieged Stahleck.

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Count Emicho and his warriors besieged Meseberg, on the Leitha.

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Nectaridus, the Count of the Saxon Shore, was killed and the Dux Britanniarum, Fullofaudes, was either besieged or captured, the remaining loyal army units staying garrisoned inside southeastern cities.

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In October 1104, Roger besieged William, Count of Monte Sant ' Angelo, who was at that time independent and pledged to the Byzantines, and expelled him from the Gargano, abolishing the county.

Then in 1578, during the wars of religion, it was besieged for nearly three months, and was captured on the 7th of January 1579 by the lieutenants of the Count of Carcès, Gaspard de Pontevès, chief seneschal of Provence.

Pamplona was besieged by General Henry O ' Donnell, 1st Count of la Bisbal's Spanish division and other units.

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