When the Swedes sacked and looted Prague

The half-conquest of the Bohemian capital

Prague, picture taken by me in 2004

This took place in the final stages of the Thirty Years' War. In May 1648, a few thousand men from the Swedish army were ordered to march into Bohemia and they reached Prague in the middle of summer.

On July 25 and 26, they entered Prague from the same side as the Prague castle, and took half of Prague. They couldn’t pa…