Were most of the armies involved in the Thirty years war Spanish?
Thirty Years War 1618 – 1648 Although much of the conflict was fought out in Germany, involving German forces, many other armies were also involved: Spanish Danish Swedish French Transylvanian Further, most armies contained large numbers of mercenaries – the Swedish army contained 12 Scottish generals and thousands of Scots troops. Spanish and Imperialist armies contained contingents from other parts of their empires; the Spanish infantry included tercios raised from Walloons (modern Belgium) and from Italy.The Austrian Imperialist forces contained a large contingent of Croat cavalry. While the characters created by Dumas were indeed fictional, the Musketeers were a real elite unit in the French army, right up to the Revolution. The Thirty Years War was characterised by mercenary rather than national armies.Officers had contracts that,when they expired, left the individual free to seek employment with another regiment, general, or even army. For example Sydenham Poyntz served in the Pr
