Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Tilly” in chapter 27 of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2:
...as banditti, and solicited permission to deal with them as such.
May we not well ask whether religion, education, science, and art combined have lessened the brutality of men since Wallenstein and Tilly ?
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