Thirty Years' Warin a sentence
- Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years' War.† (source)
- The worst was the Thirty Years' War which raged over most of the continent from 1618 to 1648.† (source)
- Their defiance led to the Thirty Years War, which in turn led to the almost complete destruction of the Czech nation.† (source)
- At least one among them hip enough to foresee the end of the Thirty Years' War, the Peace of Westphalia, the breakup of the Empire, the coming descent into particularism.† (source)
- Not least as a result of the Thirty Years' War,France gradually became the dominant power in Europe.† (source)
- However, there was Einhorn's fire-damaged set of classics in a box under the bed, and I picked out Schiller's Thirty Years' War and was lying in my socks reading when Mimi Villars came in.† (source)
- As I live, these covered parts of him were checkered with the same squares as his face; his back, too, was all over the same dark squares; he seemed to have been in a Thirty Years' War, and just escaped from it with a sticking-plaster shirt.† (source)