Wallenstein raises his private army
1625 · Event
The Bohemian magnate Albrecht von Wallenstein offers the emperor something no one else can: an army of 50,000 that will feed itself by plundering the lands it fights in. It makes the Habsburgs briefly unstoppable — and creates a general too powerful for his own master to control.
On these timelines: Thirty Years' War, Germany, Master
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