The Mercenary: A Tale of The Thirty Years' War

The Mercenary: A Tale of The Thirty Years' War

Crown 8vo, 6s. FORTUNE'S CASTAWAY. Crown 8vo, 6s. HIS INDOLENCE OF ARRAS. Popular Edition, 6d. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE HEARTH OF HUTTON. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE RED NEIGHBOUR. Popular Edition, 1s. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE BACKGROUND. Crown 8vo, 6s. A DEMOISELLE OF FRANCE. Crown 8vo, 6s. THE SECOND CITY. It was the evening of the second day of the sack of Magdeburg. Nigel Charteris, soldier of fortune by profession and in rank captain of musketeers, sought a certain house in the Kloster Strasse, if haply it were still standing. It troubled the captain little that Magdeburg should be sacked. He was of the Catholic faith. And Magdeburg had proved herself malignantly Protestant. She had flouted the Edict of Restitution. The Emperor Ferdinand II., Habsburger by race, Catholic to the marrow, had proclaimed that the possessions, wrenched from the grasp of the Catholics a hundred years before by the Lutherans and Calvinists, should be restored to Catholic hands, that the mass bell should tinkle in every chancel, and all be as if that pestilent monk, that Junker Georg of the Wartburg, had never been. Rome had bided her time, as Rome can always bide her time, and seize her[2] opportunity. The Emperor found himself with a right good flail and a stout husbandman, Count Tilly, to wield it. The husbandman with his flail had arrived before the threshing-floors of Magdeburg in bleak March. It had taken him to jocund May to force an entrance, and then the threshing and the winnowing began. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 40567
Author: Eccott, W. J.
Release Date: Aug 23, 2012
Format: eBook
Language: English