New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . eighty thousand men wereengaged in combat. Among the spectators who crowdedthe house-tops and the walls, may well have been the youngHeermans, who from thence could have seen the Bohemianarmy melt away, in the course of an hour or so, before thetroops of the emperor, leaving the mountain-sides and plateaublack with the bodies of more than ivur thousand slain. Dark days followed in Prague; the short-reigned king,Frederic, and his household fled by night; the city was sur-rendered t
New Amsterdam and its people : studies, social and topographical, of the town under Dutch and early English rule . eighty thousand men wereengaged in combat. Among the spectators who crowdedthe house-tops and the walls, may well have been the youngHeermans, who from thence could have seen the Bohemianarmy melt away, in the course of an hour or so, before thetroops of the emperor, leaving the mountain-sides and plateaublack with the bodies of more than ivur thousand slain. Dark days followed in Prague; the short-reigned king,Frederic, and his household fled by night; the city was sur-rendered to the emperor without opposition; a few monthsof inaction were allowed to supervene, in order to draw backto Prague the escaped Protestant leaders; then the net wassprung, and the boy Heermans could hear the death-belltolling daily for executions of the condemned rebels; whilethe famous Karlsbriicke over the Moldau, so captivating toa boy of twelve or thirteen, where the river lay with its lake-like waters and green, willowed islands, was now a placeto be shunned, — for above it was fixed a long row of the. AlUilMlNr llKKliMANS. Ilie [iorlniit Ijy ..n liis M:i\, ,.l , ltriti~li Mii COUNT WALLENSTEIiN 2S3 mouldering liuads of the principal men of Prague and ofBolieniia. If Augustyn Ilecrmans family did not itselfsuffer at this time, it must have been fortunate, for itbelonged undoubtedly to the Protestant faction, which hadbeen previously strong in Prague. However this may havebeen, the victorious Ilomanist j)arty carried matters with ahard hand, and times grew worse and worse for the van-quished Protestants, till in 1G27 they were given the lastalternative of either abandoning their religion or theircountry. During these gloomy times, young Augustyn Heermans,now growing up to manhood, must have often seen in thestreets of Prague a tall, thin man with stubby red hair andsmall sparkling eyes, and with a stem and somewhat ab-stracted air, for whom people alrea
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