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“Their inability or unwillingness to accommodate themselves to English ideas, their repeated rebellions and intrigues with foreign Powers, had exhausted the patience of English statesmen and forced them, at first more in self-defence than from any other reason, to adopt a policy of extirpation and plantation.”
― Europe During the Thirty Years War - Book II of II
― Europe During the Thirty Years War - Book II of II
“Further debasement, however, was yet to come, for a thirteen years' war with Russia had begun. In the days of Gustavus, Ivan's hordes had sold captive men and women for a few pence. In 1573, when they took Weissenstein, they bound to stakes the survivors of the little garrison and roasted them alive.”
― Europe During the Thirty Years War - Book I of II
― Europe During the Thirty Years War - Book I of II
