Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, a German prince and…
December 1638 CE
Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, a German prince and general who had taken the field on the Protestant side at the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, had in 1635 entered the service of France.
He is at the same time general-in-chief of the forces maintained by the Heilbronn League of Protestant princes, and a general officer in the pay of France.
This dual position is difficult; in the following campaigns, ably and resolutely conducted as they are, Bernard sometimes pursues a purely French policy, whilst at other times he uses French mercenaries to forward the cause of the princes.
From a military point of view his most notable achievements are on the common ground of the upper Rhine, in the Breisgau.
In Bernard's great campaign of 1638, he has won the battles of Rheinfelden (March 3), Wittenweiher, and Thann, and captured successively Rheinfelden, ...
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