The Siege of Magdeburg

The siege of magdeburg is murky, because although you're looking at an imperial force besieging a protestant populace. There are a lot of catholics within the city. And on the twentieth of may 16 31, as the swedish army still doesn't manage to get through to the city, the imperial forces make their final assault. It's devastating because they basically put the entire population, not just the son,. not just the soldiers, but also the civilian population, to the sword. I think the extraordinary thing about Magdeburg is that all sorts of dreadful things happene in the 30 years war, but there was no single event which summed up the absolute barbarity of