Siege of Brno (1645)
obléhání Brna (1645)
500 soldiers and 1,000 townspeople held off 28,000 for nearly four months.
The siege of Brno ran from 3 May to 23 August 1645 and was a significant event of the closing phase of the Thirty Years' War. A garrison of 500 soldiers and around a thousand inhabitants held the city against roughly 28,000 troops under the Swedish general Lennart Torstenson. The defence tied down the Swedish army for almost a quarter of a year, launched the career of the defenders' commander Louis Raduit de Souches in Habsburg service, and shaped what Brno became afterwards.
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- Source: cs.wikipedia.org
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