Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

208 Wallenstein Whether Wallenstein initiated or merely agreed to the meeting is unknown, but Ilow organised and conducted it. H ...

Decline and Fall 209 but in the end all appending their signatures. Schiller makes much of a trick in which the original documen ...

210 Wallenstein with France and Sweden. It is difficult to establish what knowledge, if any, Wallenstein had of these latter man ...

Decline and Fall 211 to force him to reconsider was still almost two months away. Trcˇka was not the man to let such details sta ...

212 Wallenstein are in vain’. Nevertheless he procrastinated. He insisted that he must have precise instructions before going to ...

Decline and Fall 213 resign the command, provided that His Imperial Majesty will guarantee his personal safety and arrange for h ...

214 Wallenstein in Paris, tales which may have been a distorted echo of Kinsky’s vain attempts to establish such a contact.^31 P ...

Decline and Fall 215 worried him that the two propositions were incompatible, requiring Wallenstein to both join with and to dri ...

216 Wallenstein in association with France. Hence Wallenstein should be removed from his command, because ‘in politics one shoul ...

Decline and Fall 217 time as a new commander-in-chief was appointed.^38 Those officers who had signed the Pilsen oath were, with ...

218 Wallenstein As a result he was not well placed to take part in any attempt to arrest or kill Wallenstein. Piccolomini himsel ...

Decline and Fall 219 efforts. He met Oñate first, and then on 18 February he was received by Ferdinand. Imperial orders to army ...

220 Wallenstein tribunal, sitting in secret, hearing no evidence and publishing no judgement, on the basis of which the emperor ...

221 14. Assassination Is the Quickest Way (Molière) In Pilsen they had still not detected the rumbles of distant thunder which m ...

222 Wallenstein Piccolomini and Aldringer, as well as for Max to speak to Questenberg. Wald first encountered Piccolomini, by th ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 223 for which he stood guarantor. Unfortunately funds had not been forth- coming from the cour ...

224 Wallenstein with the rest of the headquarters on the following day. At this point they were still expecting to be able to ac ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 225 while senior military functionaries and their staff made the number up to around 200. Befo ...

226 Wallenstein Breuner’s message made no difference to his intentions, ‘which I have previously set out to you and my field mar ...

Assassination Is the Quickest Way 227 published by another of his chaplains, Thomas Carve, but he was not in Germany at the time ...