The Battle of Lomnice or Lomnice nad Lužnicí occurred on 9 November 1618, during the Bohemian period of the

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. It was fought between the Habsburg

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army of

Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, 2nd Count of Bucquoy ( cs, Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, es, Carlos Buenaventura de Longueval, Conde de Bucquoy, full name in french: Charles Bonaventure de Longueval comte de Bucquoy, german: Karl Bonaventura Graf v ...

, and the

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army of Jindřich Matyáš Thurn. On 23 May 1618, the Bohemian Protestant

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defied their King Ferdinand, heir to Holy 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 the Defenestration of

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. The new government, formed of Protestant nobility and Heinrich Matthias von Thurn, assumed command over the Bohemian Protestant forces. A Habsburg Roman Catholic army under the command of

, was approaching Prague but a Protestant army stopped it near

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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.Jitka Lenková a Václav Pavlík. ''Nejdůležitější bitvy v Českých dějinách''. Nakladatelství Alpress. 2007. p. 173-174

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