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95 objective which the Spaniards had iniview, in co-op- eration with the forces of Christian IV. of Denmark, An extract from this work to this effect, prefaced by two others showing the general situation, is here given as follows : Some of her fSweden's:I historians have alleged that she might, by prolonging the struggle fthe Thirty Years' Waril, for another campaign, have extorted more humiliating concessions from Austria, as she maintained at the signature of the peace fof Westphalial above a hundred garrisons in Germany, several fortresses in the heart of the Imperial dominions, and a fine veteran army of nearly 7o,ooo troops, supported chiefly at the enemy's expense. But these favorable circumstances were more than counter-balanced by the increasing distresses that prevailed at home fin the Swedish realmj and the continuance of hostilities between France and Spain, which would have devolved on the Swedish Regency the whole burden and hazard of a doubtful contest, at an expense of blood and treasure that might ultimately have ruined the kingdom. fVol. ii., p. 74.5 While the Swedish flag waved on the Danube, certain hos- tile indications on her part attracted the storm which desolated the Imperial dominions to the coasts of the Baltic. QVol. ii., P. 75-l The object constantly kept in view by the Court of Copen- hagen ., . . was to contribute to the conclusion of such a peace as might . . . exclude the Swedes from such terri- torial acquisitions on the Baltic and the Elbe as might endan- ger the security of Denmark. fVol. ii., p. 7 5.5 Christian's jealousy of Sweden led. him to form the roman- tic scheme of subduing that kingdom, and destroying the trade of its allies, the Dutch, in the Baltic. Spain ,favored the de- sign, and embarked a body of troops who were to join the Danes before Stockholm 5 but the defeat of the Spanish fleet fin two battles, 16th September and 31st October, 16391, in the British Channel by Tromp frustrated the whole -project. fVol. ii., p. 75.5 . Such, then, was the situation when, on the dates above given, the great Dutch Admiral Tromp,
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