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From a military point of view Pappenheim's conduct was excellent ; his measures were skillful, and his personal valour, as always, conspicuous.

So much could not be said of his tactics at the battle of Breitenfeld, the loss of which was not a little due to the impetuous cavalry general, who was never so happy as when leading a great charge of horse.

The retreat of the imperialists from the lost field he covered, however, with care and skill, and subsequently he won great glory by his operations on the lower Rhine and the Weser in rear of the victorious army of Gustavus Adolphus.

Much-needed reinforcements for the king of Sweden were constantly detained by Pappenheim's small and newly-raised force in the north-west.