books.google.com - The weakness displayed by the empire and the increasing disunion between Austria and Prussia encouraged the French to further insolence. Not satisfied with garrisoning every fortification on the left bank of the Rhine, they boldly attacked, starved to submission, and razed to the ground, during peace...http://books.google.com/books/about/Germany_from_the_Earliest_Period.html?id=E6YFqBUYecoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGermany from the Earliest Period