Note 1257 — Chapter XIII
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Ibid., 239, 255. The prince of Orange anticipated the disaster of Jemmingen, for he disapproved of the rash policy of his brother. See a letter on this head written by him to Louis of Nassau in July, 1568 (Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 257, and the latter’s reply, July 17, ibid., III, 264, 265). Alva had been so certain of Spanish victory that in advance of it he offered Charles IX the use of Spanish troops (C. S. P. For., No. 2,379, §2, July 29, 1568).