... effects of their desperate resolutions. Whether these considerations excited fear or admiration in the king, they confirmed his resolution of granting a pardon to Blood; but he thought it a ... preparation, and facilitated all the enterprises of the army: Condé, Turenne, seconded by Luxembourg, Crequi, and the most renowned generals of the age, conducted this army, and by their conduct ... defenceless situation into which many concurring accidents had conspired to throw her. By a continued and successful application to commerce, the people were become unwarlike, and confided entirely...