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| Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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| Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
| Date | 1899 |
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| Language | English |
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| Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
| Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
| Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
| Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
| Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
| Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
| Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
| Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
| Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
| Title | Page 46 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_058.jpg |
| Transcript | The Story of Nuremberg Rhenish towns founded in 13N1, but three she came in. Though the great princes ot the Empire were very jealous of such leagues, the Kaiser mat to patch Up a union, with himself at the head, this league and the princes, and called it the " Heidelberg Union " for the maintenance of peace. Ho\. a year or two later the Dukes ot . jealous as ever of the towns, broke loose, and seized the Archbishop Pilgrim von Salzburg, a friend of the towns, and some Nuremberg merchants. The Kaiser, insfc taking strong measures at once, pursued his usual policy of shilly-shally. But in .January [388 a strong army of the League started from Augsburg, ravaging all Bavaria with lire and sword. To this army Nuremberg contributed some mounted mercenaries, and at the same time marched an army of her own—8000 strong, a very large army for those days—against Hilpol' but without success. The war resolved itself into a struggle between the interests of the princes and of the towns. The towns failed to hold together, and paid the penalty in failure. They had commenced hostilities vigorously, but Nuremberg set the example of In a year or so she made peace on no very fa\ ourable terms, consenting to pay heavy indemnities. Still, the general result of the war, though the towns arere not successful, was not to lower the status of the b So far as Nuremberg was concerned the adminis! of the war had been carried on by a Committee of the Rat—the Kriegsrat, which henceforth became p nent. As to the expenses, they were in part det. by a wholesale seizure of .lews and confiscation of then- property. This disgraceful proceeding was done bv the League in general (1 Ss5» Mid igain in 1390), countenanced by the H a characte story of that very feckles which will show how lit he was to govern the German Empire. 46 |