The Thirty Years' War - James Aitken Wylie

Upsala. This formed some compensation for the
more valuable library of Heidelberg which had
been transferred to Rome. On the 17th of
November he entered Frankfort-on-the-Maine, and
marched his army in a magnificent procession
through it. "He appeared in the midst of his troops,
clad in cloth of scarlet and gold, riding a handsome
Spanish jennet, bare-headed, with a bright and
handsome countenance, and returning with
graceful courtesy the cheers and salutations of the
spectators."[3] From the furthest shore of
Pomerania, to the point where he had now arrived,
the banks of the Maine, the king had held his
victorious way without being once compelled to
recede, and without encountering a single defeat.
"Here, in the heart of Germany, he received the
Protestant States like a German emperor of the
olden time."[4]
Traversing the Ecclesiastical States that stretch
from the Maine to the Rhine, "the Priest's Row,"
the milk and honey of which regaled his soldiers
after the sterile districts through which they had
passed, Gustavus crossed the Rhine, and laid siege
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