The Outline of History : Being a Plain History of Life And Mankind
The Outline of History : Being a Plain History of Life And Mankind
H G Herbert George Wells
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Sweden, Denmark, and Norway had already gone over to the Protestant side. The German religious war began in 1546, a few months after the death of Martin Luther. We need not trouble about the incidents of the campaign. The Protestant Saxon army was badly beaten at Lochau. By something very like a breach of faith Philip of Hesse, the Emperor's chief remaining antag- onist, was caught and imprisoned, and the Turks were bought off by the payment of an annual tribute. In 1547, to the great relief of... the Emperor, Francis I died. So by 1547 Charles * But he had a better reason for doing this in the fact that there was no heir to the throne. The Wars of the Roses, a bitter dynastic war. were still very vivid in the minds of English people. — F, H. H, 762 THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY got to a kind of settlement, and made his last efforts to effect peace where there was no peace. In 1552 all Germany was at war again, only a precipitate flight from Innsbruck saved Charles from capture, and in 1552, with the treaty of Passau, came another unstable equilibrium.
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