Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXIII. THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR ON THE BODEN SEE. The Thirty Years' War on the Boden See--Historians of the War--Schiller-- Motley -- Its outbreak at Prague -- Battles of Lutzen and NSrdlingen -- Devastation wrought throughout Germany--On the Boden See, Ueberlingen is the head quarters of the Catholics, Lindau of the Protestants--Wallenstein's army--Pestilence--War Commissaries--The Kaiser remonstrates with Wallenstein--Fresh troops and fresh exactions--The Swedes under Horn--Besiege Constance and Ueberlingen--Conrad Widerhold at the Hohentwiel--Takes Ueberlingen by surprise--Is himself besieged--The Swedes take Bregenz and besiege Lindau--Diary of Sebastian Burster, Monk of Salem--Condition of the Abbey at the beginning of the war--Strange portent in the sky--Abundant vintage--The Abbey and the fortune of war--Swedes come to burn Salem-- Death of Gustavus Adolphus--Troubles of the Monks--A relieving army-- Apostrophe to the Kaiser--Nordlingen--Plague of field-mice--Caterpillars-- Pestilence--Starvation and misery--Vicissitudes of the War--The Abbey almost deserted--Sudden close of old Burster's Diary--Requiescat in pace. Of transcendent interest, not only to the historical student, but to every lover of freedom, is the record of the great struggle which lasted for eighty years, from its first inception at Alva's Council of Blood in the Netherlands in 1568, until the tardy negotiators at length gave peace to an exhausted world at Miinster and Osnabruck in 1648. With the intuition of a true poet, Schiller saw this and gave to the world his great histories of the Revolt in the Netherlands and of the Thirty Years' War. In 1814, nine years after Schiller's early death, was born in far-away Boston, a boy destined to make this great theme...
