[Won by the Sword by G.A. Henty]@TWC D-Link bookWon by the Sword CHAPTER XIX: THE PEASANTS' REVOLT 33/34
They at once marched away towards Strasburg.
Turenne followed them with three thousand infantry, four French regiments of horse, and the only one of the Weimar cavalry that had remained faithful to him, and came up just as they were about to recross the Rhine. Partly by entreaties, partly by showing his confidence in them, by putting himself wholly in their power, the marshal induced a portion of the Weimar cavalry to return to their duty.
General Rosen, who was to a large extent responsible for the mutiny, was arrested and imprisoned at Philippsburg, the rest of the mutineers rode away with the loss of a portion of their number, and joined the Swedes.
After this the order for Turenne to march to Flanders was countermanded. The war languished for a few months, the Imperialists were defeated after a hard fought cavalry battle by Turenne and the Swedes, and the country was overrun by the latter, whose horsemen raided almost up to Innsbruck.
But all parties were growing weary of the conflict, which had now lasted thirty years.
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