Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Sakamakon haka, kodayake Frederick ya yarda da kambi kuma ya shiga Prague a watan Oktoba 1619, goyon bayansa a hankali ya ɓace a cikin 'yan watanni masu zuwa. A watan Yulin 1620, Protestant Union ta ayyana tsaka tsaki, yayin da John George na Saxony ya yarda ya goyi bayan Ferdinand don musayar Lusatia, da kuma alkawarin kare haƙƙin Lutherans a Bohemia. Sojojin haɗin gwiwa na Imperial-Catholic League da Maximilian ya ba da kuɗi kuma Count Tilly ya jagoranta sun kwantar da Upper da Lower Austria kafin su mamaye Bohemia, inda suka ci Christian na Anhalt a White Mountain
a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1620. Kodayake yakin ya yi nisa da yanke hukunci, 'yan tawaye sun kasance marasa ƙarfi saboda rashin biyan kuɗi, karancin kayayyaki, da cututtuka, yayin da sojojin Imperial suka lalata ƙauyuka. Frederick ya gudu daga Bohemia kuma tawayen ya rushe.