This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...173 have been taken by a coup de main. But here again Thurn showed himself no general. He delayed so long that he let the capital, and, with it, the king and victory, slip out of his hands. The Lower Austrian estates actually urged the king to subscribe to an unconditional peace with the Bohemians. Deserted by his own ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...173 have been taken by a coup de main. But here again Thurn showed himself no general. He delayed so long that he let the capital, and, with it, the king and victory, slip out of his hands. The Lower Austrian estates actually urged the king to subscribe to an unconditional peace with the Bohemians. Deserted by his own counselors, Ferdinand defended himself with wonderful tenacity, until the sudden arrival of four hundred cuirassiers who had been summoned to his aid set him free from his extreme difficulties (June 5). A few days later, Thurn disappeared from before Vienna. In the meantime, Bucquoi's little band had, by means of Hungarian and Walloon auxiliaries, been increased to the number of 12,000 men. Issuing with these from Budweis, he fell upon Mansfeld's corps near Zablat and completely annihilated it. This affair, unimportant in itself, filled the troops of the insurgents in Bohemia with terror; for Thurn still tarried in Austria. Bucquoi pursued the fugitives into the neighborhood of Prague, seizing all the towns in his way. Thurn now returned in haste to Bohemia. The whole situation had been changed by one blow. As the Bohemians but lately stood before Vienna, the royalists in their turn now stood within fourteen miles of Prague. The moral preponderance was now on the side of the Hapsburgs. These successes were also of especial importance for the imperial election, which was to take place in Frankforfr-on-thc-Main in the month of July. In vain had the Elector Palatine sought to secure the Duke of Bavaria as a candidate in opposition to Ferdinand; he would not accept the crown from the hands of the heretics. The Duke of Savoy had at last likewise declined the barren and costly honor. Thus the Elector Palatine and the Elector of Brandenburg, who were...
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