Excerpt from Lives of the Warriors of the Thirty Years' War, Vol. 2: Warriors of the Seventeenth Century Bernhard of Saxe Weimar, better known in German history as the brave Duke of Weimar, and the successor to the great Gustavus, was born in 1604; but his father, Duke John, died soon after his birth, and he lost his mother when he had scarcely attained the age of fifteen. The brother also who was nearest his own age, and his playmate, died somewhere about the same time so that he was early thrown upon the world, and both from worldly circumstances and dis position left to carve out his own fortune as he could. He adopted the common expedient of German Princes, and took up arms. The world's mine oyster, which I with sword will open. 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.