The Thirty Years' War - James Aitken Wylie

imperial center were now attacked, and were
giving way before the overwhelming impetuosity
of their antagonists. At that moment a terrible roar
was heard behind the imperial army. The ground
shook, and the air was black with volumes of
smoke, and lurid with flashes of fire. Their powder
wagons had exploded, and bombs and grenades in
thousands were shooting wildly into the sky.
Wallenstein's army imagined that they had been
attacked in the rear; panic and flight were setting in
among his troops; another moment and the day
would be won by the Swedes.
It was now that Pappenheim, whom
Wallenstein's recall found at no great distance,
presented himself on the field at the head of fresh
troops. All the advantages which the Swedes had
gained were suddenly lost, and the battle was
begun anew. The newly-arrived cuirassiers and
dragoons fell upon the Swedes, who, their numbers
thinned, and wearied with their many hours'
fighting, fell back; the trenches were again
recrossed, and the cannon once more abandoned.
Pappenheim himself followed the retreating
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