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His dashing courage, which had led to the decisive
attack in the Battle of Jankow or Jankowitz, near Prag,
also showed itself in the fierce Battle of Warsaw, that
lasted for three days, and at which Charles X. of Sweden
led the Swedish wing, the Great Elector of Brandenburg
the Brandenburg one, and Robert Douglas the centre.
When the King after the battle left the small Swedish
army under Douglas’s command, whilst he himself brought
his main body over to Denmark, the leader’s skilful and
victorious resistance against a superior force was no less
remarkable. Very pretty is the tradition, which is still
current in the neighbourhood, that when the two Generals,
Douglas and Lilje, returned from the war, they wanted
to live near one another, and therefore had their castles
built so close that they were able to exchange signals.1
As a Field-Marshal (1657), Douglas went to Livland,
took the town of Wollmar, and made the garrison,
consisting of 923 men, prisoners. Then he turned his steps
towards Kurland, where he took by surprise the town and
fortress of Mitau, brought away the Duke and his wife
as captives to Riga, and conquered the Lithuanian General
Komorowsky in 1659. When peace was concluded, he
returned to Stockholm, where he died in 1662.* 1 2
The third on our list is Robert Lichtone (or Lichton).
der hochlöblichen Regierung eines treueiffrigen Knechtes und dessen
ohngefärbten Gemiiths zu versichern.” See Oxenstiernas Corresp.
in Riks-A.
1 From private information kindly given by Grefve Douglas, The
Castle, Linköping. The above-mentioned tradition has been made the
subject of a poem called “ Vapenbröderna,” by the Swedish poet
Snoilsky.
2 In the Tankebok of 1650 we find, sub dato July 19, that
General Douglas brought an action for libel against a certain Thomas
Berckmann from Hamburg. The latter was mulcted in the sum of
100 Thaler. Stads-A., Stockholm.
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