the stores of old wines in
the cellar. Sir John Hepburn was appointed military governor of Munich.

In the arsenal armour, arms, and clothing sufficient for 10,000 infantry
were found, and a hundred and forty pieces of cannon were discovered
buried beneath the floors of the palace. Their carriages were ready in
the arsenal, and they were soon put in order for battle. For three
weeks the army remained at Munich, Gustavus waiting to see what course
Wallenstein was taking. The Imperialist general had entered Bohemia,
had driven thence, with scarcely an effort, Arnheim and the Saxons, and
formed a junction near Eger with the remnants of the army which had been
beaten on the Lech; then, leaving a strong garrison in Ratisbon, he had
marched on with an army of sixty thousand men.

He saw that his best plan to force Gustavus to loose his hold of
Bavaria was to march on some important point lying between him and North
Germany. He therefore selected a place which Gustavus could not abandon,
and so would be obliged to leave Bavaria garrisoned only by a force
insufficient to withstand the attacks of Pappenheim, who had collected
a considerable army for the recovery of the territories of Maximilian.
Such a point was Nuremberg, the greatest and strongest of the free
cities, and which had been the first to open its gates to Gustavus. The
Swedish king could hardly abandon this friendly city to the assaults of
the Imperialists, and indeed its fall would have been followed by the
general defection from his cause of all that part of Germany, and he
would have found himself isolated and cut off from the North.

As soon as Gustavus perceived that Nuremberg was the point towards
which Wallenstein was moving, he hastened at once from Munich to the
assistance of the threatened city. The forces at his disposal had been
weakened by the despatch of Marshal Horn to the Lower Palatinate, and
by the garrisons left in the Bavarian cities, and he had but 17,000 men
disposable to meet the 60,000 with whom Wallenstein was advancing. He
did not hesitate, however, but sent off messengers at once to direct
the corps in Swabia under General Banner, Prince William of Weimar, and
General Ruthven, to join him, if possible, before Nuremberg.

Marching with all haste he arrived at Nuremberg before Wallenstein
reached it, and prepared at once for the defence of the city. He first
called together the principal citizens of Nuremberg and explained to
them his po