I have to weep for them, because I remain so impotent and alone.

Out of my whole life, I am left with scarcely five persons alive, whom I can claim some trace of friendship.

Johann Valentin Andrea,

citizen of Brandenburg during the Thirty Years' War.

July 7, 1632.

Hallelujah,

Yeah,

ah,

ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, oh.

Ah, ah, oh. Nordlingen,

Nordlingen, an incredible amount of consequences for the Swedish state.

Almost immediately, the Swedish stock began to fall.

Swedish forces retreated towards Pomerania, abandon practically all of their previous

winnings.

The initiative passed security to the Habsburgs in Germany, while the prospects for the future

success of the Protestant cause, or in fact the defeat of the Habsburg cause, depended

largely on the plans of France, which we'll examine later.

The Heilbronn League, so carefully and ingeniously inceptive by Gustavus Adolphus himself in the months before his death, received its death blow on that battlefield also,

as Sweden proved no longer able to support it,

and the German princes and reps within it it came face to face with the monumental decision

of either abandoning the League and siding with Ferdinand, following all they had done with the enemy,

or remaining with the now harried and outcast Swedes.

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