Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War

by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · language: en

Vocabulary level: Elementary · Flesch–Kincaid grade 11 · 4,304 sentences

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Subjects: Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 — Juvenile fiction

Words worth knowing: omelette · untenable · sturdily · laddie · baton · portcullis · visor · forewarn

WON BY THE SWORD A STORY OF THE THIRTY YEARS' WAR By G.A.

MY DEAR LADS, In my preface to the Lion of the North I expressed a hope that I might some day be able to continue the history of the Thirty Years' War.

The deaths of Gustavus and his great rival Wallenstein and the crushing defeat of the Swedes and their allies at the battle of Nordlingen brought the first period of that war to a close.

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