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Excerpt from Works of Wm; Robertson, D.D, Vol. 5 of 8
As soon, then, as the peace was concluded at Pas sau, he left his inglorious retreat at Villach, and ad vanced to Augsburg at the head of a considerable body of Germans which he had levied, together with all the troops which he had drawn out of Italy and Spain. To these he added several battalions, which having been in the pay of the confederates, entered into his service when dismissed by them; and he pre vailed, likewise, on some princes of the empire to join him with their vassals. In order to conceal the des tination of this formidable army, and to guard against alarming the French king, so as to put him on pre paring for the defence of his late conquests, he g out that he was to march forthwith into Hungary, in order to second lviaurice in his operations against the infidels. When he began to advance towards the Rhine, and could no longer employ that pretext, he tried a new artifice, and spread a report, that he took this route in order to chastise Albert of Brandenburg, whose cruel exactions in that part of the empire called loudly, for his interposition to check them.
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