Chapter 16

FERDINAND II. From 1619 to 1621.

Possessions of the Emperor.--Power of the Protestants of Bohemia.-- General Spirit of Insurrection.--Anxiety of Ferdinand.--Insurrection led by Count Thurn.--Unpopularity of the Emperor.--Affecting Declaration of the Emperor.--Insurrection in Vienna.--The Arrival of Succor.--Ferdinand Seeks the Imperial Throne.--Repudiated by Bohemia.--The Palatinate.-- Frederic Offered the Crown of Bohemia.--Frederic Crowned.--Revolt in Hungary.--Desperate Condition of the Emperor.--Catholic League.--The Calvinists and the Puritans.--Duplicity of the Emperor.--Foreign Combinations.--Truce between the Catholics and the Protestants.--The Attack upon Bohemia.--Battle of the White Mountain. Page 245