Spanish Road
Multiple Spanish armies travelled along the reopened Spanish Road during the late 1620s and early 1630s, some to the traditional battlefield in the Low Countries but others to Germany, where the Thirty Years' War was now raging, in order to support the beleaguered Austrian Habsburgs. One of the Spanish armies to use the Road during this period was that of Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand, which won a series of important victories in Germany including the First Battle of Nördlingen.