The Mercenary: A Tale of The Thirty Years' War

part in the history of battles; and, sanguine leader that he was, it is

doubtful if he expected to cross it by a wild rush through its treacherous waters.

Disposed in earthworks at suitable intervals behind the river were numerous pieces of ordnance ready to dispute the passage of the Swedes. And into the rear of the defences Maximilian himself had led up those regiments that ...