Note 1272 — Chapter XIII
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Ibid., I, 75; Archives de la maison d’Orange-Nassau, III, 284-86. The prince of Orange at this time was near Cleves having an army but no money. See a letter of the prince of Orange to the duke of Württemberg and the margrave of Baden asking for pecuniary assistance. September 17, 1568 (ibid., III, 291). His plans again failed. He tried to enter Picardy for the purpose of uniting with the Huguenots. But the alertness of the marshal Cossé again prevented Genlis as it had foiled Cocqueville, and the prince was compelled to abandon his purpose. At Strasburg his army was dissolved (ibid., III, 295, 303, 313-16; Languet, Epist. ad Camer., 89; Epist. secr., I, 75).