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streets were encumbered by the heavily laden baggage wagons, and a
vast amount of booty fell into the hands of the Scotch, who thus
became masters of the town before Gustavus and his Swedes had
succeeded in carrying the gate.
The king now entered the town, and as soon as order was restored
Hepburn's brigade recrossed the Danube and threw up a strong work
on the other side of the bridge; for Tilly was on the Lech, but
seven miles distant, and might at any moment return. He had just
struck a severe blow at Marshal Horn, who had recently taken Bamberg.
His force, 9000 strong, had been scattered to put down a rising of
the country people, when Tilly with 16,000 fell upon them.
A column under Bauditzen was attacked and defeated, and Tilly's
horsemen pursued them hotly to the bridge leading to the town.
Marshal Horn threw a barricade across this and defended it until
nightfall. Tilly had then fallen back before the advance of Gustavus
to a very strong position on the Lech. This was an extremely rapid
river, difficult to cross and easily defensible. Tilly had broken
down the bridges, and was prepared to dispute till the last the
further advance of the Swedes. He placed his army between Rain,
where the Lech falls into the Danube, and Augsburg, a distance of
sixteen miles -- all the assailable points being strongly occupied,
with small bodies of cavalry in the intervals to give warning
of the approach of the enemy.
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