"The hereditary dominions of Frederick V were invaded, the Protestants
were defeated, the Palatinate entirely subdued, and the electorate
was conferred upon Maximilian of Bavaria; and the rigid laws against
the Protestants were carried into effect in the Palatinate also.
It had now become evident to all Europe that the Emperor of Austria
was determined to stamp out Protestantism throughout Germany; and
the Protestant princes, now thoroughly alarmed, besought aid from
the Protestant countries, England, Holland, and Denmark. King James,
who had seen unmoved the misfortunes which had befallen his daughter
and her husband, and who had been dead to the general feeling of
the country, could no longer resist, and England agreed to supply
an annual subsidy; Holland consented to supply troops; and the King
of Denmark joined the League, and was to take command of the army.
"In Germany the Protestants of lower Saxony and Brunswick, and the
partisan leader Mansfeldt, were still in arms. The army under the
king of Denmark advanced into Brunswick, and was there confronted
by that of the league under Tilly, while an Austrian army, raised
by Wallenstein, also marched against it. Mansfeldt endeavoured to
prevent Wallenstein from joining Tilly, but was met and defeated by
the former general. Mansfeldt was, however, an enterprising leader,
and falling back into Brandenburg, recruited his army, joined the
force under the Duke of Saxe-Weimar, and started by forced marches
to Silesia and Moravia, to join Bethlem Gabor in Hungary.
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