What the records say
- When
- 25 Feb 1634
- Kind
- Assassination
- Coordinates
- 50.08° N, 12.37° E
- Description
- killing of an army general and his soldiers in the German state
Assassination of Wallenstein
1634 murder in Eger, Holy Roman Empire
The Assassination of Albrecht von Wallenstein was the culmination of an internal purge in the army of the Holy Roman Empire. On 25 February 1634, a group of Irish and Scottish officers acting under the approval of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, assassinated generalissimo Albrecht von Wallenstein and a group of his companions in the town of Eger.
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