[The Life of John of Barneveld<br> 1609-23 by John Lothrop Motley]@TWC D-Link book
The Life of John of Barneveld
1609-23

CHAPTER V
11/66

A fortnight later the place surrendered.

The terms granted by the conqueror were equitable.

No change was to be made in the liberty of Roman Catholic worship, nor in the city magistracy.

The citadel and its contents were to be handed over to the Princes of Brandenburg and Neuburg.

Archduke Leopold and his adherents departed to Prague, to carry out as he best could his farther designs upon the crown of Bohemia, this first portion of them having so lamentably failed, and Sergeant-Major Frederick Pithan, of the regiment of Count Ernest Casimir of Nassau, was appointed governor of Julich in the interest of the possessory princes.
Thus without the loss of a single life, the Republic, guided by her consummate statesman and unrivalled general, had gained an immense victory, had installed the Protestant princes in the full possession of those splendid and important provinces, and had dictated her decrees on German soil to the Emperor of Germany, and had towed, as it were, Great Britain and France along in her wake, instead of humbly following those powers, and had accomplished all that she had ever proposed to do, even in alliance with them both.
The King of England considered that quite enough had been done, and was in great haste to patch up a reconciliation.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books