NORDLINGEN  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the See also:

• KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

• BAVARIA (Ger. Bayern)

Bavaria, on the See also:

• EGER (Czech, Cheb)
• EGER (Ger. Erlau, Med. Lat. Agria)
• EGER, AQIBA (1761–1837)

Eger, 40 M . N. of See also:

• AUGSBURG
• AUGSBURG, CONFESSION OF
• AUGSBURG, WAR OF THE LEAGUE OF

Augsburg by See also:

• RAIL

rail and at the junction of lines to Buchloe and Dombiihl . Pop . (1905) 8512 . It was formerly a See also:

• FREE

free imperial town, owning a territory 35 sq. in. in extent, and is still surrounded with walls and towers . The Evangelical See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

George is a See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic structure erected in the 15th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century and restored in 1880 . It has paintings by Hans Schaufelein, who was a native of Nordlingen, and a See also:

• TOWER (Lat. turris; Fr. tour, clocker; Ital. torre; Ger. Thurm)

tower 290 ft. high . The See also:

• LATE

Late Gothic town See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

hall has a collection of pictures and antiquitim The See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief manufactures of the town are See also:

• LINEN

linen goods, See also:

• SOAP

soap, See also:

• MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt, and agricultural implements, and a brisk See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade is carried on in See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and geese . From 898, when first mentioned, to 1215 Nordlingen was subject to the bishops of See also:

• REGENSBURG (RATISBON)

Regensburg, but about 1215 it became a free See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of the See also:

• EMPIRE

Empire . It was annexed to Bavaria in 1803 . Nordlingen was the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of two See also:

• GREAT

great battles in the See also:

• THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War (q.v.) . In the first, which was fought on the 5th and 6th of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1634, the hitherto invincible See also:

• SWEDISH

Swedish See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army, commanded by See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke Bernhard of See also:

• SAXE, JOHN GODFREY (1816-1887)
• SAXE, MAURICE, COMTE DE (1696-1750)

Saxe See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar and See also:

• MARSHAL (med. Lat. marescalcus, from O.H.Ger. marah, horse, and scalc, servant)

Marshal See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

Horn, was defeated with great loss by a somewhat See also:

• SUPERIOR

superior army of Imperialists and Spaniards under See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

General See also:

• GALLAS
• GALLAS, MATTHIAS, COUNT OF CAMPO, DUKE OF LUCERA (1584-1647)

Gallas, Horn and 3000 men being made prisoners and 6000 killed or mortally wounded .

In the second See also:

• BATTLE

battle, fought eleven years later (3rd See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1645), See also:

• CONDE
• CONDE, LOUIS DE BOURBON, PRINCE
• CONDE, LOUIS II
• CONDE, PRINCES OF

Conde (then duke of See also:

• ENGHIEN
• ENGHIEN, LOUIS ANTOINE HENRI DE BOURBON

Enghien) and See also:

• TURENNE, HENRI DE LA TOUR

Turenne were the leaders on the one See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side, and See also:

• MERCY (adapted from Fr. merci, Lat. merces, reward)
• MERCY (or MERCI), FRANZ, FREIHERR VON

Mercy and Johann von Weert, the dashing See also:

• CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry See also:

• COMMANDER

commander whose onset had decided the battle of 1634, on the other . The Germans were posted some 5 M. to the See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east of Nordlingen, about Allerheim, with their right resting on a See also:

• HILL
• HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
• HILL, A
• HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
• HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
• HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
• HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
• HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
• HILL, JAMES J
• HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
• HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
• HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
• HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
• HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)

hill and the See also:

• LEFT

left on a See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle, the guns with an See also:

• INFANTRY

infantry escort being placed on these points, and the See also:

• VILLAGE

village itself in the centre being also garrisoned and entrenched . In See also:

• REAR

rear of the village the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain was occupied by Mercy's army in the customary two lines, See also:

• FOOT

foot in the centre, See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse in the wings . The See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French army, similarly arrayed, but with a few battalions attached to the cavalry wings, was more heterogeneous than the See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German, being composed of French, See also:

• HESSIAN

Hessian, German mercenaries, and Liegeois . After a cannonade in which it suffered more severely than its entrenched enemy, the French centre furiously attacked the village of Allerheim; the fighting here was very heavy, and on the whole in favour of the Germans, although Mercy was killed . The right wing of the French cavalry was swept off the See also:

• FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
• FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
• FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
• FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
• FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
• FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
• FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
• FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
• FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
• FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
• FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)

field by Johann von Weert's See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge, but the German troopers, intoxicated with success, dispersed to See also:

• PLUNDER

plunder . On the French left, meanwhile, Turenne saved the See also:

• DAY (O. Eng. dreg, Ger. Tag; according to the New English Dictionary, " in no way related to the Lat. dies")
• DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
• DAY, THOMAS (1748-1789)

day: Fighting cautiously at first with his leading See also:

• LINE

line to gain See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time for his second to come up, he then charged and See also:

• BROKE, or BROOKE, ARTHUR (d. 1563)
• BROKE, SIR PHILIP BOWES VERE, BART

broke up the hostile right wing of cavalry, while some battalions of infantry scaled the hill and captured the Bavarian guns . Unlike Weert the marshal kept his troops in See also:

• HAND
• HAND (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Hand, Goth. handus)
• HAND, FERDINAND GOTTHELF (1786-185r)

hand, and swung See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round upon the Bavarian infantry behind Allerheim, who were at the same time cannonaded by their lost guns . A prolonged fight now ensued, in which the Bavarians had the worst of it, and Weert, returning at last to the field, dared not See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to engage afresh . The armies faced one another all See also:

• NIGHT

night with their sentries fifty paces apart, but in the See also:

• MORNING

morning the Bavarians were found to have retreated . Nothing was gained by the victors but the trophies and the field of battle, and the losses of both sides had been enormous . Enghien had only 1500 of his foot in hand next day .

Nordlingen, therefore, is a classical instance of the unprofitable and costly bataille See also:

• RANGER, HENRY WARD (1858– )

ranger of the 17th century . See See also:

• BEYSCHLAG, WILLIBALD (1823-1900)

Beyschlag, Geschichte der Stadt Nordlingen (Nordlingen, 1851), and See also:

• MAYER, JOHANN TOBIAS (1723-1762)
• MAYER, JULIUS ROBERT (1814-1878)

Mayer, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die Stadt Nordlingen, ihr Leben and ihre Kunst See also:

• IM(K2+a2+h2—2 ah cos 0)

im Lichte der Vorzeit (Nordlingen, 1856) .