Palatinate campaign

Palatinate campaign
Part of the Thirty Years' War
Date 30 August 1620 – 27 August 1623 Location Lower Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (present-day Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) 49°30′N 8°1′E / 49.500°N 8.017°E / 49.500; 8.017 (Lower Palatinate) Result Catholic victory
Belligerents
Spanish Empire  Holy Roman Empire Catholic League	Kingdom of England Protestant Union Electoral Palatinate
Commanders and leaders
Ambrogio Spinola Carlos Coloma Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba	Ernst von Mansfeld Gerard Herbert † Horace Vere, 1st Baron Vere of Tilbury Sir John Burroughs Christian the Younger of Brunswick George Frederick, Margrave of Baden-Durlach
Strength
Imperial army Army of Flanders
Lower Palatinate class=notpageimage| Location within modern Germany

The Palatinate campaign (30 August 1620 – 27 August 1623), also known as the Spanish conquest of the Palatinate or the Palatinate phase of the Thirty Years' War was a campaign conducted by the Imperial army of the Holy Roman Empire against the Protestant Union in the Lower Palatinate, during the Thirty Years' War.^[1]