The Thirty Years War House Of Habsburg Defeated
The spread of the Protestant rebellion against Catholicism spread to the Austrian Empire. In 1618 a Protestant rebellion became a European wide conflict known as the Thirty Years' War.
This conflict was fought mainly on German soil, after a Catholic king of Austria had been deposed by Protestant rebels. A third of all of Germany's population was killed in this battle between Catholic and Protestant. Ultimately the House of Habsburg were defeated at the end of the Thirty Years' War, and by the Treaty of Westphalia in 1648, their centralized control of the Empire was reduced to a loose union of independent states.
A Great White Hero: Prince Eugene of Savoy (1663-1736). Although always thought of as an Austrian general, he was in fact born in Paris of French parents. His mother was however was exiled by the French King Louis XIV, and Eugene renounced his French citizenship and joined the Austrian army. He took part in many intercontinental European wars, notably against the armies of Louis XIV, but it was his continual victories against the Nonwhite Turks that brought him his greatest fame. In 1697, as commander of the Austrian army in Hungary, he utterly defeated the Nonwhites at the Battle of Senta. In 1716 he again led an army - this time consisting of Hungarians - against the Turks and defeated them at the battles of Peterwardein, Timisoara and Belgrade. In 1781 he led a decisive rout of the Nonwhite armies which forced the Turks back even further south down the Balkans.
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