Excerpt from The Married Life of Anne of Austria, Vol. 2 of 2: Queen of France, Mother of Louis and Don Sebastian, King of Portugal France, the Empire, and the Dukes of Mantua and Savoy; or to oppose, by every artifice, the election of the Emperor's eldest son as King of the Romans. The desired pacification was obtained: Casale was to be surrendered. The Emperor, moreover, in his anxiety to secure the promise of the imperial dignity for his son, disbanded, at the solicitation of a majority of the Electors, a part of that vast army under his renowned general, Albert de Wallenstein, Duke dc Friedland, which held the rebellious princes in check; and might have arrested the victori ous advance from Pomerania of King Gustavus Adolphus.* The Swedish armies laid siege to Stettin. 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.