venecher

Updated: June 16, 2025

There was much difference of opinion between them as to the best course to be pursued, but Enghien, who was always in favour of great battles, finally determined so to place the army that the enemy would be forced to come out and fight. He therefore marched to Venecher, captured Wimpfen, and threw a bridge across the river, whereupon General Merci fell back twenty leagues into Franconia.

G. A. (George Alfred) Henty - Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War