...on December 7, Breisach, the last reputed…
December 1638 CE
...on December 7, Breisach, the last reputed one of the strongest fortresses in Europe, which Ferdinand II and General Reinach had defended well.
Bernard had in the first instance received definite assurances from France that he should be given Alsace and Hagenau, Würzburg having been lost in the debacle of 1634; he now hopes to make Breisach the capital of his new duchy, though his health is deteriorating. (After Bernhard's death the following July at at Neuenburg am Rhein at the beginning of the campaign, his general will take a bribe and give the territory to France, which sees it as its own conquest.)
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