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The Battle of White Mountain, November 8, 1620 (BÃlá hora is the name of White Mountain in Czech) was an early battle in the Thirty Years' War in which an army of 20,000 Bohemians and mercenaries under Christian of Anhalt were routed by 25,000 men of the combined armies of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor under Karel Bonaventura Buquoy and of the Catholic League under Johan Tzerclaes, Count of Tilly at Czech BÃlá Hora, near Prague (now part of it). The battle marked the end of the Bohemian period of the Thirty Years' War.