Battle of Stadtlohn

Battle of Stadtlohn
	Part of the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War
	; Battle of Stadtlohn, oil painting by Peter Snayers
Date	6 August 1623
Location	Stadtlohn, Prince-Bishopric of Münster; (present-day North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)52°01′11″N 6°56′48″E
Result	Catholic victory; End of the Bohemian-Palatinate War (1618–1623)
Belligerents
Electoral Palatinate	Holy Roman Empire; Catholic League;
Commanders and leaders
Christian of Brunswick; Hermann Styrum; Dodo zu Knyphausen	Count of Tilly; Graf Anholt
Strength
15,000	5,000+ cavalry; 15,000+ infantry; 14 guns
Casualties and losses
6,000 dead; 4,000 captured	1,000 dead or wounded
	Stadtlohn Location within North Rhine-Westphalia Stadtlohn Stadtlohn (Germany)

The Battle of Stadtlohn was fought on 6 August 1623 between the armies of the Electoral Palatinate and of the Catholic League during the Thirty Years' War. The League's forces were led by Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, the Protestants by Christian of Brunswick. The battle resulted in a resounding Catholic victory that largely ended the military resistance of the Palatinate forces and thus marked the end of the first phase of the Thirty Years' War.

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