him, and came up just as they were about to recross the Rhine.

Partly by entreaties, partly by showing his confidence in them,
by putting himself wholly in their power, the marshal induced
a portion of the Weimar cavalry to return to their duty. General
Rosen, who was to a large extent responsible for the mutiny, was
arrested and imprisoned at Philippsburg, the rest of the mutineers
rode away with the loss of a portion of their number, and joined
the Swedes. After this the order for Turenne to march to Flanders
was countermanded.

The war languished for a few months, the Imperialists were defeated
after a hard fought cavalry battle by Turenne and the Swedes, and
the country was overrun by the latter, whose horsemen raided almost
up to Innsbruck. But all parties were growing weary of the conflict,
which had now lasted thirty years. It had inflicted incredible
suffering upon all who were concerned in it, and had produced no
important results whatever, except that it had prevented the entire
crushing out of Protestantism in Germany, and the peace conference
for the first time began to work in earnest.

At last, after Bavaria had been wasted from end to end, and the
duke driven into exile, peace was concluded, the emperor yielding
every point demanded by France, as he saw plainly enough that unless
he did so Turenne's army would be at the gates of Vienna at the
commencement of the next campaign, and in October, 1648, hostilities
ceased. Turenne went to Munster and acted as the French negotiator
in arranging the peace, to which his genius, steadfast determination,
and the expenditure of his own means, by which he had kept the
army on foot, had so largely contributed.