Battle of Lomnice
Part of theThirty Years' War
Jindřich Matyáš Thurn
Date 9 November 1618 Location Lomnice nad Lužnicí,Bohemia Result Bohemian victory
Belligerents
Bohemia	Habsburg Monarchy Bohemian Royalists
Commanders and leaders
Jindřich Matyáš Thurn	Count of Bucquoy
Strength
About 14,000	Less than 10,000
Casualties and losses
80 dead and 120 wounded	About 1,500 dead, wounded, or missing

TheBattle of Lomnice orLomnice nad Lužnicí occurred on 9 November 1618, during theBohemian period of theThirty Years' War. It was fought between theHabsburgRoman Catholic army ofCharles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, and theProtestant army ofJindřich Matyáš Thurn.

On 23 May 1618, the Bohemian Protestantnobles defied theirKing Ferdinand, heir toHoly Roman Emperor Matthias, and threw the Roman Catholic governors of Bohemia from a window of their office at Prague Castle in an act which came to be known as theDefenestration ofPrague. The new government, formed of Protestant nobility andJindřich Matyáš Thurn, assumed command over the Bohemian Protestant forces.

A Habsburg Roman Catholic army under the command ofCharles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, was approaching Prague but a Protestant army stopped it nearČáslav for several weeks; subsequent problems with food supplies and illness forced Buqouy to withdraw. Later, when Bucquoy was on his way to reinforce, Count Thurn followed Bucquoy's army and forced a battle near the village of Lomnice nad Lužnicí in southern Bohemia. Part of the Roman Catholic army held a position between two ponds and suffered most of its casualties from artillery fire. Bucquoy suffered defeat, losing at least 1,500 troops. As a result, the main part of the Habsburg army had to leave Bohemia. But the Protestants did not follow up their victory by chasing the enemy, thereby missing an opportunity to crush their Catholic opponents.^[1]

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