Mantua (Italy)--History--Siege, 1630

found: Work cat.: Abriss dess Hertzogthumbs Mantoua mit dem Umbligenden Landschafften, 1630(additional caption: Abriss der Statt Mantoua wie selbige diser Zeit von den Keiserischen belägert worden. 1630)

found: Parrott, David. "The Mantuan Succession: A Sovereignty Dispute in Early Modern Europe." English Historical Review 112 (1997):page 63 ("By early May 1629 the first detachment of soldiers had moved down from the alpine passes ... in November and December 1629 this army began the first siege of the city of Mantua. The siege was abandoned ... In May 1630 the army returned to lay siege to Mantua again ... and on 16 July Mantua fell to the imperial army")

found: Wikipedia, accessed January 4, 2016(Entry: The War of the Mantuan Succession (1628--31) was a peripheral part of the Thirty Years' War. Later in 1629, Emperor Ferdinand II sent an army to besiege Mantua which lasted until July 1630, when the city, already struck by a plague, was brutally put to the sack for three days and three nights by troops led by Count Aldringen and Gallas)