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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 101 |
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| File Name | exotic_201304_001_110.jpg |
| Transcript | The Thirty 1 ear/ W meats, which increased the King's army to 50,000 m determine 0 make a general assault on the Alte Veste and the northern side of the camp. It will be clear to anyone who 1 ground that this m almost impossible undertaking, the forlornest of forlorn hopes. What desperate courage could do was done. For ten hours the Swedes stormed undaunted against fearful odds and with fearful losses. Three times they got actual footing in the Burgstall itself; three tin .ere hurled back. At last Gustv. who had had I piece of the sole of his right boot shot off, and had always been in the thi - of the light, dragging the cannon to points of vantage and aiming them with his own hands, was obliged to relinquish the de :ve done tupid thing to-day," was his comment- For the first time in his life, indeed, he was conquered, because he was not conqueror. Bi s claws were cut: he had suffered little less than Gustavus in the fight round tl Nuremberg was s«r for the present, for \\ in no condition to prosecute a siege. After fifteen days, therefore (September 8), Gustavus, unable to stay for lack of supplies, and failing to er.* o battle on the plain, marched aw i\ into Thuringia, and two months later, on the field of Lutzen, he fell in the moment of victory when he ;ted his old enemy. hat, however, ten days after he had departed, anil Q up his camp, I s came back to Fiirth and looked at what had been the enemy's position. I hat he had breakfast on the round ston< II to be found at the Alte Veal iown as the Schw Ttsch. Once more, in October, I d, drove the Impend troops out of the Nuremberg territory, and took his I own. 101 |