1-345-203 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly, Flemish soldier of the Thirty Years War, (1903). Tilly (1559-1632) was appointed by Maximilian I of Bavaria to reorganise the Bavarian army in 1610. He commanded the Catholic army at the beginning of the Thirty Years War (1618-1648) and succeeded Wallenstein as Commander-in-Chief of Imperial Forces in 1630. He was mortally wounded in a battle against the Swedes at the crossing of the river Lech in Germany in 1632. A print from The World's History, A Survey of Man's Record, by Dr HF Helmolt, Volume II, William Heinemann, London, 1903.