The world: historical and actual . « GERMANY AND THE REFORMATION. 23i There were several great reputations made duringthat war. but the names most entitled to recognitionwere those of Wallenstein und Gustavus former was a soldier of fortune who allied him-self to the Catholic cause. He had vast wealth,secured by two marriages, and he bought importantestates which made him a prince. Wallenstein hada genius for war. He supported and paid his army! iv plunder, serving the Hapsburgs with conspicuoussuccess. He was distrusted as aiming at imperial princes he would have made short work
The world: historical and actual . « GERMANY AND THE REFORMATION. 23i There were several great reputations made duringthat war. but the names most entitled to recognitionwere those of Wallenstein und Gustavus former was a soldier of fortune who allied him-self to the Catholic cause. He had vast wealth,secured by two marriages, and he bought importantestates which made him a prince. Wallenstein hada genius for war. He supported and paid his army! iv plunder, serving the Hapsburgs with conspicuoussuccess. He was distrusted as aiming at imperial princes he would have made short work of theHapsburgs, but he was regarded with suspicion andabsolute animosity in some instances. He wonseveral important victories, the most important ofall being the one at Lutzen, November 16, 1632,which cost him his life. He fell at the head of hisvictorious troops, and even in death was TheSwede of Victory. Gustavus Adolphus gave vital-ity to the cause which cost him his own life. The end was not yet. Year after year the eon- 1 ). f ft PEACE OF WESTPHALIA. 1 honors, and suspected, at last, of designing to desertto the Protestant cause, and finally assasinated atthe evident instigation of the Emperor in Febru-ary, 1634. Gustavus Adolphus was quite the equalof Wallenstein in military genius and a man ofhigh character. He came to the throne of Swedenin 1611, when he was seventeen years of age. Asplendid specimen of a man in every way, he real-ized the actual issue at stake and embarked in thecause of Protestantism in Germany when he wasthirty-four years of age, having already achievedimportant victories over the Russians. Had hebeen cordially supported by the German Protestant flict raged. It developed into a struggle for life onthe part of Protestantism and a struggle for terri-torial acquisition on the part of the petty princesand the foreign states. France was especially anx-ious that Germany should be so weakened that herown area could be extended northward, and withmost cons
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