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Unknown · 1632

captured, while the rest were cut down. They captured six banners and all the Pagagi baggage. Lieutenant Colonel Straube, who commanded the regiment, was not present; rather, he was said to be in the aforementioned Hameln at the time, merry, joyful, and in good spirits, concerning himself little with the soldiers entrusted to him, but much more with a good drink, musicians, and young ladies. Because of this, all his men had to pay for the banquet with bloody heads. On the aforementioned 21st of January, ambassadors from the Council and Goslar. the citizenry of Goslar came to His Princely Grace at Kniestedt and began to negotiate an agreement with him. Thereupon His Princely Grace broke camp from Kniestedt on the 23rd and moved with General Baner to Goslar on that same day, staying there until the 26th. On that day, he broke camp and moved back to Seesen, a small Brunswick town, where the six captured banners of the League were presented and delivered to His Princely Grace with special joy, as a lucky beginning granted by God for his laudable, heroic, and Christian intent. From the 26th, His Princely Grace rested until the 31st, when on that day he set out toward Northeim, a prominent Brunswick city, which had been demolished by the Imperial League troops who fled out of fear they could not hold it. February. He remained there until the 7th of February, on which day he broke camp again and took his headquarters at Bovden, a Hessian village belonging to the Lordship of Pleß.
Since His Princely Grace had now learned through gathered intelligence that the strong and well-defended Göttingen. Princely Brunswick city of Göttingen was under the command of Hans Georg von Carthaus with only about 300 men, including about 50 on horseback, and was garri-