CONTENTS
PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. THE INVITATION
CHAPTER II. SHIPWRECKED
CHAPTER III. SIR JOHN HEPBURN
CHAPTER IV. NEW BRANDENBURG
CHAPTER V. MARAUDERS
CHAPTER VI. THE ATTACK ON THE VILLAGE
CHAPTER VII. A QUIET TIME
CHAPTER VIII. THE SIEGE OF MANSFELD
CHAPTER IX. THE BATTLE OF BREITENFELD
CHAPTER X. THE PASSAGE OF THE RHINE
CHAPTER XI. THE CAPTURE OF OPPENHEIM
CHAPTER XII. THE PASSAGE OF THE LECH
CHAPTER XIII. CAPTURED BY THE PEASANTS
CHAPTER XIV. IN THE CHURCHTOWER
CHAPTER XV. A TIMELY RESCUE
CHAPTER XVI. THE SIEGE OF NUREMBERG
CHAPTER XVII. THE DEATH OF GUSTAVUS
CHAPTER XVIII. WOUNDED
CHAPTER XIX. A PAUSE IN HOSTILITIES
CHAPTER XX. FRIENDS IN TROUBLE
CHAPTER XXI. FLIGHT
CHAPTER XXII. THE CONSPIRACY
CHAPTER XXIII. THE MURDER OF WALLENSTEIN
CHAPTER XXIV. MALCOLM'S ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXV. NORDLINGEN
MY DEAR LADS,
You are nowadays called upon to acquire so great a mass of learning and information in the period of life between the ages of twelve and eighteen that it is not surprising that but little time can be spared for the study of the history of foreign nations. Most lads are, therefore, lamentably ignorant of the leading events of even the most important epochs of Continental history, although, as many of these events have exercised a marked influence upon the existing state of affairs in Europe, a knowledge of them is far more useful, and, it may be said, far more interesting than that of the comparatively petty affairs of Athens, Sparta, Corinth, and Thebes.
Prominent among such epochs is the Thirty Years' War, which arose from the determination of the Emperor of Austria to crush out