Piccolomini: Wallenstein's reference to; becomes confidant of Wallenstein;gives warning of Wallenstein to the Court; in command at Saalfield;in pursuit of Banner; defeated by Torstensohn; commands Imperialists.
Prague: meeting of the "Defenders"; insurrection at; Battle of, and savage treatment of the vanquished; entered by the Saxon Army;the taking of. [See also Bohemian Diet.]
Protestant Union: design and aim of; divisions and changes; points of union;formation of Evangelical Union; demands on accession of Matthias;alliance with Hungary; preachers banished; dissolved; suppression of;oppressions in Germany; reprisals in Prague.
Ragotsky, Prince: successor to Bethlen Gabor; in Austria and Moravia, ravages the country.
Ratisbon: Diet held at, 1630; results of Diet, taken by Duke Bernard;besieged by King of Hungary; Diet held at, 1641.
Rednitz, desperate fight at.
Reformation: history of the (most of Book I.); influence throughout Europe;progress in Hungary; outbreaks at Strasburg.
Reservatum Ecclesiasticum, explanation of.
Richelieu, Minister of France: negotiates with Sweden;effects a truce; treaty with Sweden; labours in favour of Gustavus;assists German Protestants; terms with Duke Bernard; fall of Breysach;death of.
Rodolph, Archduke and Emperor: ascends Imperial throne as Rodolph II.;his political position; abdicates in favour of his brother; death of.
Rostock, taken by Imperialists.
Saxe-Lauenberg, Francis Albert, Duke of.
Saxe-Weimar, Bernard, Duke of: succeeds Gustavus at Lutzen;remains on the field; captures Leipzig; takes Ratisbon; removal of;escapes capture; visits France; defeats the Imperialists;lays siege to Breysach; death of.
Saxony, Elector of, John George: refuses Tilly's demands;alliance with Gustavus; at Leipzig; meditates a separation from Sweden;leaves the Swedes; treats with the Emperor; recalls his officers from Banner's army; treaty with Sweden.
Schafgotsch, Imperialist general.
Seni, Wallenstein's astrologer.
"Snow King", nickname for Gustavus.
Spain: influence in Germany; policy of, under Charles V.
Spanish prisoners.
Stralsund, siege of.
Strasbourg, religious divisions.
Styria, Archduke of. [See Ferdinand II.]
Suys, Imperialist general.
Sweden: political and religious condition of; historical summary of Polish connection; origin of her intervention in the Thirty Years' War;truce with Poland; alliance with France 1631; condition after death of Gustavus.
Swedes: offer battle to Wallenstein; overrun Bavaria;successes throughout Germany; capture Bregentz; advance to Nordlingen.
Terzky, Count.
Terzky, Countess.
Thurn, Count, "Defender": seizes Krummau; invades Moravia;encamps before Vienna; takes flight to Holland; returns to Prague;conveys Wallenstein's message to Gustavus.
Thurn, Count, Swedish general: at Steinau; surrender to Wallenstein;demanded by the Jesuits.
Tilly, Count: commands the "army of execution"; defeats the Danish army at Lutter; appointed generalissimo; character and appearance;returns to Magdeburg; takes Magdeburg; encamped on the Elbe;demands assistance from Saxony; ravages Saxony; at Leipzig;flies to Lower Saxony; defeats Charles, Duke of Lorraine;punishes the Bishop of Bamberg; awaits Gustavus at Rain; death.
Torgua: Diet of; council at.
Torstensohn, Bernard, Swedish general: enters Silesia; defeats Piccolomini;overruns Holstein; enters Bohemia; routs the Austrians at Jancowitz;retires from command.
Turenne, French general: at Friburg; recrosses the Rhine;joins the Swedes at Giessen; retires to the Netherlands.
Turks: the hostile inroads of; reference to.
Trent, Council of.
Union, the Protestant, first success and failures.
Urban VIII., Pope.
Wallenstein, Count: invades Holstein; created Duke of Friedland;besieges Stralsund; makes a treaty with the Danes; his exactions;appears at Ratisbon Diet; his dismissal; mode of life;reply to the King of Denmark; pressed by the Emperor to take command;quits Prague; his position and personal feelings; makes use of Arnheim;advises the Saxons; assumes command; avenges himself on Maximilian;meets the Elector at Egra, Wallenstein's triumph; review at Neumark;besieges Nuremberg; marches to Zirndorf; takes winter quarters in Saxony;joins Pappenheim; belief in astrology; at Lutzen; advises an amnesty;duplicity with Elector of Bavaria; offers terms to the Swedes;suspicions aroused; secret negotiations with France;defeats Swedes on the Oder; releases Count Thurn; storms Goerlitz;marches to the Upper Palatinate; deprived of command;calls a meeting of generals at Pilsen; his duplicity;calls for absent generals; secret orders for his apprehension issued;publicly denounced; retires to Egra; assassination.
Weimar. [See Saxe-Weimar.]
Werth, John de, Imperialist general: heads Bavarian malcontents.
Westphalia, Treaty of (Treaty of Peace).
Wimpfen.
Wrangel, Gustavus, Swedish general: marches to the Danube; ravages Bavaria;marches to Bohemia; driven from Bohemia.
