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THE JESUIT. Retaining ten thousand men under his own command, Count Tilly immediately despatched the Counts of Carlstein and Merodé, with the remainder of his force, along the banks of the Elbe, wit…
OF THE GOOD DEEDS OUR MUSKETEERS WERE UNDOING. My heart sickened at the thought of all I had so providentially escaped, by the casual intervention of a passing priest. "Come, master Rollo,&quo…
THE MERODEURS. From the place where I parted with Father Ignatius, Lauenburg, was about three miles distant, and the Elbe about one. The dusky evening was giving place to duskier night. At a little …
THE HUNTER'S COT. I had lost the path, and knew not which way to turn; yet the necessity for action made me walk hastily forward in the line which seemed parallel with the road I wished to purs…
I OBTAIN A COMPANY OF MUSKETEERS. The Imperialists were rapidly penetrating into Holstein, and every where the troops of King Christian were falling back before them; the Lords Nithsdale and Spynie …
PROTEUS AGAIN. Major-General Slammersdorf had once been one of the happiest old fellows in the Danish service; but having had the misfortune to distinguish himself at Carelia, in the Swedish war, an…
A FOREST ON FIRE! The poultry gleaned up by our foragers from the houses we had passed ( deserted houses, remember), and the beef provided by our Fourrier de Campement before leaving the good ship…
THE PRISONERS OF THE PISTOLIERS. The horsemen came up rapidly. We challenged, and they proved to be the baron's troop of pistoliers retiring from the front with a dozen of prisoners, whom they …
THE PASS OF OLDENBURG. Here again, as at Boitzenburg and elsewhere, the desperate duty of keeping Tilly in check until Duke Bernard's Danish forces were re-embarked, was reserved for the Highla…
THE NIGHT OF HORRORS AT HEILINGHAFEN. Without firing another shot, we reached Heilinghafen, and found the town in a state of unparalleled uproar. Terrified by the noise of the cannon and musketry at…
