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THE Blood, Battel of Jankow, has un∣percht the Emperial Eagle, which can no longer endure the Smoak of Suedish Gun-Powder.
The German Court, is removed in a great Fright to Prague in Bohemia, there to curse the Avarice of the Souldiers; whose greedy Desire of the Suedish Prey, betray'd the Ger∣man Army to the Swords of their Conque∣rors.
This Battel was fought, on the Sixth Day of the Third Moon of this present Year. Goetz,
one of the Imperial Generals, was kill'd in the first On-set; which so Inflamed Baron John de Werdt, that with Four Thousand Men, he brake into the Left Wing of the Suedes; put∣ting them into an Irrecoverable Disorder. The Germans seeing their Enemies retreat in much Confusion, fell to plundering the Bag∣gage. General Torstenson, turning their Cove∣tousness to his Advantage, lets them alone till they were all entangled and loaden with Booty; then suddenly falls upon them, and turn'd the Fortune of the Day to his own Side.
There were above Three Thousand of the Imperialists kill'd upon the spot, and Four Thousand taken Prisoners; among which, were the Generals, Hatsfeldt, Mercy, Broy, Zara∣deskie, and Seven other Principal Comman∣ders.
By this Fatal Stroke, the Suedes have open∣ed to themselves a Passage into Moravia, Au∣stria, and Hungary. So that, in Time they may extend their Conquests, even to the Con∣fines of the Ottoman Empire.
I pray the Great God, to continue the Wars between these Infidel Nations; that so, not attending to the General Interest of Christen∣dom, but weak ening each other, they may at Length become a Prey to the True Be∣lievers.
Paris, 9th. of the 5th. Moon, of the Year 1645.