Wallenstein. The Enigma of the Thirty Years War

148 Wallenstein Perversely it was Maximilian and Tilly who opened hostilities in southern Germany in 1632. Gustavus had left one ...

Once More unto the Breach 149 account the possibility that strong reinforcements might be on the way to Tilly. Hence he decided, ...

150 Wallenstein Well beforehand Maximilian had begun making plaintive appeals to Wallenstein for help, professing his personal f ...

Once More unto the Breach 151 bring reinforcements. Frustrated, Gustavus turned on the undefended Bavarian hinterland and the ci ...

152 Wallenstein providing the occasion for the first personal meeting between Wallenstein and Maximilian. Khevenhüller gives a d ...

153 The Alte Veste Wallenstein had already won round one of the contest by the time his army came face to face with the Swedes o ...

154 Wallenstein Experience had repeatedly shown that relatively small garrisons in well- fortified cities could hold off full-sc ...

From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us 155 culminating in a heavily wooded ridge, beyond which the ground falls away steeply a ...

156 Wallenstein completed in three days.^4 Formidable though this sounds, with some 40,000 men available it reduces to two tonne ...

From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us 157 Soldiers and their dependants fell sick and died. Horses died or were slaughtered, ...

158 Wallenstein direction involved a long march around the Imperialist encampment, particularly difficult for the artillery over ...

To Würzburg andBad Windsheim Gustavus’s defensive line built 2 September Gustavus’s attack3 September Gustavus’s attack 31 Augus ...

160 Wallenstein counter-attack. Wallenstein assumed that his intention was to move on around the Imperialist camp in order to at ...

From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us 161 retreat, so that he decided to attack from the north, expecting that the fortificat ...

162 Wallenstein most of his munitions and supplies, completely turning the tables and forcing him to withdraw. However Wallenste ...

From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us 163 As the fortifications seemed to be impregnable an alternative idea was developed, t ...

164 Wallenstein but now hungry men, demoralised by a long period on the defensive followed by two failed attacks, started to des ...

From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us 165 major strategic initiative, and time instead to think about shortening his lines of ...

166 Wallenstein disease and desertion which affected all armies during a summer in the field, but also by the number of units he ...

From the Fury of the Norsemen Deliver Us 167 to Weissenfels, a few miles from Naumburg, on the following day, but Gustavus staye ...