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Defoe, Daniel, 1661-1731

"Memoirs of a Cavalier A Military Journal of the Wars in Germany, and the Wars in England. From the Year 1632 to the Year 1648."

The Elector died in the same year as Gustavus Adolphus.
His son Charles Lewis was restored to the Lower Palatinate only, which
was confirmed to him at the end of the war in 1648.
p. 82, l. 3. The battle of Nieuport, one of the great battles between
Holland and Spain, was fought in 1600 near the Flemish town of that
name. Prince Maurice won a brilliant victory under very difficult
conditions.
p. 82, l. 30. A ravelin is an outwork of a fortified building.
p. 86, l. 16. It was the attempt in 1607 to force Catholicism on the
Protestants of the free city of Donauwoerth which led to the formation
of the Protestant Union in 1608.
p. 87, l. 9. The Duringer Wald.--Thuringia Wald.
p. 97, l. 29. Camisado (fr. Latin Camisia=a shirt) is generally used
to denote a night attack.
p. 98, l. 4. Note the inconsistency between this statement of the
Cavaliers interest in the curiosities at Munich and his indifference
in Italy where he had "no gust to antiquities."
p. 99, l. 7. Gustavus Adolphus had entered Nuremberg March 1631.
Wallenstein was now bent on re-taking it.
p. 100, l. 29. The Cavalier's enthusiasm for Gustavus Adolphus leads
to misrepresentation.


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