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Besieging towns, sometimes unsuccessfully and sometimes culminating in taking them by surrender or by storm, was much more common and typical of the military activity in the Thirty Years War than the relatively infrequent pitched battles. Many of the eyewitnesses report their experiences of such events, and in a number of cases a siege and storm is the central feature of the account.
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© 2002 Geoff Mortimer
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Mortimer, G. (2002). Siege and Storm. In: Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618–48. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230512214_5
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