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and the mixed quality of the Ottoman artillery corps

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Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand 1222 and the mixed quality ofAlmost all senior commanders in the Thirty Years War were of noble birth but few could claim a higher status than the Cardinal Infante Ferdinand of Spain. The King of Spains intention was to guide his son into a church career rather than one made on the battlefields of Europe, but fate and the necessities of war changed the Infantes direction and he would become one of Spains most celebrated military commanders. Ferdinand burst onto the military scene