The Danube: its history, scenery and topography / [William Beattie].

  • William Beattie
Date:
[1844?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Danube: its history, scenery and topography / [William Beattie]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    JingolstaUt.] brought with it the restoration of many of the strongholds along the Bavarian fi-ontier; and Ingolstadt, taking a prominent station among these has again resumed all the THB KRI£fZ-TnOR. characteristics of a place-forte. The Kreuz-thor, or Cross-gate, leading over the drawbridge and fosse, and smmounted by pointed turrets, is strikingly picturesque- The citadel contains a ganison with an arsenal, and all the usual appendages of a fortress of national importance—including a “ tete-du-pont, and flanked by nume- rous roimd towers of most solid construction.” These walls, however, fortified as they are, and promising everything desirable for the security of the inhabitants, impart to the whole a prison-like appearance, and conjure up in the stranger’s mind a thousand ideas of siege and storm, capitulation and captirity. It was here that Count Tilly,’ after his defeat, already mentioned, died of his > John Tilly—Count of Tzerklas, and one of the most celebrated generals of the seventeenth century—was a native of Brabant, and born in 1559. He rose by degrees to the command of the “ army of the League,” and in the Seven Years' War, was appointed generalissimo of the imperial troops. His character for military talents and bravery was of the highest kind, but he stained his laurels by uncalled-for cruelty. After gaining thirty-six battles, he was entirely defeated by Gus- tavus Adolphus, at Brettenfield, Sept. 7, 1631 ; and being wounded by a cannon-ball—as above-stated, before the town of Rain—died in 1632 I
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