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Rheinberg, the only city of the episcopate which remained to the deposed Truchsess, was soon afterwards invested by the troops of Parma, and Schenk in vain summoned the States-General to take proper measures for its defence.
"You Lieutenant Von Schenk?" I admitted I was, and then heard this disgusting news. "Kranz, 1st Lieutenant U.39, reported suddenly ill, Zeebrugge, poisoning you relieve him. Ship sails in one hour forty minutes from now my car leaves here in forty minutes and takes you to Zeebrugge. Here are operation orders inform Von Weissman he acknowledges receipt direct to me on 'phone. That's all."
The Earl had taken some forts in the Batavia Betuwe; or "good meadow," which he pronounced as fertile and about as large as Herefordshire, and was now threatening Nymegen, a city which had been gained for Philip by the last effort of Schenk, on the royalist side.
"He ain't come!" announced one of the women in tragic tones. "Ben Schenk ain't here?" asked Mrs. Beaver in accents so awful that her listeners quaked. "Well, I'll see the reason why!" Out into the night she sallied, picking her way around the puddles until she reached the saloon at the corner. "Where's Ben Schenk?" she demanded sternly of the men around the bar.
Of all the professors of this comprehensive art, the terrible Martin Schenk was preeminent; and he was now ravaging the Cologne territory, having recently passed again to the service of the States. Immediately connected with the chief military events of the period which now occupies us, he was also the very archetype of the marauders whose existence was characteristic of the epoch.
By John Lothrop Motley History of the United Netherlands, 1586 Military Plans in the Netherlands The Elector and Electorate of Cologne Martin Schenk His Career before serving the States Franeker University founded Parma attempts Grave Battle on the Meuse Success and Vainglory of Leicester St.
Parma having thus made himself master of the Meuse, lost no time in making a demonstration upon the parallel course of the Rhine, thirty miles farther east. Schenk, Kloet; and other partisans, kept that portion of the archi-episcopate and of Westphalia in a state of perpetual commotion.
In Brabant, such towns as Breda with its many dependencies and Gertruydenberg; on the Waal, the strong and wealthy Nymegen which Martin Schenk had perished in attempting to surprise; on the Yssel, the thriving city of Zutphen, whose fort had been surrendered by the traitor York, and the stately Deventer, which had been placed in Philip's possession by the treachery of Sir William Stanley; on the borders of Drenthe, the almost impregnable Koevorden, key to the whole Zwollian country; and in the very heart of ancient Netherland, Groningen, capital of the province of the same name, which the treason of Renneberg had sold to the Spanish tyrant; all these flourishing cities and indispensable strongholds were garrisoned by foreign troops, making the idea of Dutch independence a delusion.
"I am speaking," I continued, "on behalf of Lieutenant Von Schenk " "Ah, yes!" growled the voice, and for an instant a panic seized me, but I resumed: "He met Madame Stein at dinner some days ago, and she kindly asked him to call; he has asked me to ring up and inquire when it would be convenient, as he would like to meet you, sir, as well.
Schenk was accordingly absent, jobbing the Rheinberg siege, and in his place one Aristotle Patton, a Scotch colonel in the States' service, was commandant of Gelders. Now the thrifty Scot had an eye to business, too, and was no more troubled with qualms of conscience than Rowland York himself.
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