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Excerpt from The Palatine, or German Immigration to New York and Pennsylvania: A Paper Read Before the Wyoming Historical and Geological Society
In the following Spring the peasants were forced to plow under their crops. The whole land was filled with mourning. Many thousands were killed. Many were starved or frozen to death. In one day the Elector, stand ing on the wall of Manheim, counted twenty-three villages in ?ames. The ferocity of the war and the sufferings of the people cannot be adequately described. To this day remain their monuments in the ivy covered ruins, which give so much of beauty and charm to the hills among which ?ows the Rhine. It is needless to follow the course of the war. For a few years the people had rest, and then in 1693 another invasion brought on another wave of widespread misery. Then it was that the great castle of Heidelberg was reduced to that condition which makes it the greatest and most picturesque ruin in Europe.
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In the following Spring the peasants were forced to plow under their crops. The whole land was filled with mourning. Many thousands were killed. Many were starved or frozen to death. In one day the Elector, stand ing on the wall of Manheim, counted twenty-three villages in ?ames. The ferocity of the war and the sufferings of the people cannot be adequately described. To this day remain their monuments in the ivy covered ruins, which give so much of beauty and charm to the hills among which ?ows the Rhine. It is needless to follow the course of the war. For a few years the people had rest, and then in 1693 another invasion brought on another wave of widespread misery. Then it was that the great castle of Heidelberg was reduced to that condition which makes it the greatest and most picturesque ruin in Europe.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Sanford Hoadley Cobb
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ISBN - 9780265593967
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 32
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Sanford Hoadley Cobb
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ISBN - 9780282902933
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 34
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