The History of Gustavus Adolphus and of the Thirty Years' War Up to the King's Death: With Some Account of Its Conclusion by the Peace of Westphalia Anno 1648Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1856 - 441 pages |
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... Vienna had been threatened ; his palace had been violated by insurgent Austrians ; and his own firmness , and the arrival of 500 cuirassiers , under Dam- pierre , had scarcely saved him from captivity , or from concessions at which his ...
... Vienna had been threatened ; his palace had been violated by insurgent Austrians ; and his own firmness , and the arrival of 500 cuirassiers , under Dam- pierre , had scarcely saved him from captivity , or from concessions at which his ...
Page 137
... Vienna , at Rome , public rejoicings , in which the emperor and pope personally took part , expressed the importance attached to the success itself , and to the circumstances under which it had been accomplished . † - Maximilian ...
... Vienna , at Rome , public rejoicings , in which the emperor and pope personally took part , expressed the importance attached to the success itself , and to the circumstances under which it had been accomplished . † - Maximilian ...
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... Vienna and Brussels ; of which a short truce in the Lower Palatinate , and a few fair speeches and vague promises , were the only benefits . In May , 1621 , he sent another ambassador , Lord Digby , to Vienna , to deprecate the further ...
... Vienna and Brussels ; of which a short truce in the Lower Palatinate , and a few fair speeches and vague promises , were the only benefits . In May , 1621 , he sent another ambassador , Lord Digby , to Vienna , to deprecate the further ...
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... Vienna was only temporising , Digby obtained his recall , and , on his way home encountering Mansfeldt in the Upper Palatinate , induced him to break off a negotiation with the emperor ( in which both parties were suspicious , and both ...
... Vienna was only temporising , Digby obtained his recall , and , on his way home encountering Mansfeldt in the Upper Palatinate , induced him to break off a negotiation with the emperor ( in which both parties were suspicious , and both ...
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... Vienna . * The thrice repeated attack of Mansfeldt on the fort which Wallenstein had erected on the right bank of the Elbe at the bridge of Dessau , seems to indicate a more aggressive purpose than that of merely creating a diver- sion ...
... Vienna . * The thrice repeated attack of Mansfeldt on the fort which Wallenstein had erected on the right bank of the Elbe at the bridge of Dessau , seems to indicate a more aggressive purpose than that of merely creating a diver- sion ...
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