Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1917 — Famous Old Freiburg. [ARTICLE]

Famous Old Freiburg.

In the vicinity of the city was fought the famous battle of Freiburg, on the 3d, sth and 10th of August, 1644, in which the French, under the great Conde, Enghein and the almost equally distinguished General Turenne, were defeated by General Mercy, who was compelled in the end to retire. however, resulting in the French conquest of the Rhine valley from Basel to Coblentz. In one of the public squares of Freiburg stands a monument to the memory of Berthold Schwarz, who, according to tradition, invented gunpowder in the city in 1259.