When the Austrian proclamations seemed in vain to remind all of Germany of Spain's example, as we disregard those adventurous attempts by three or four men who risked blood, property, honor, and life in vain, they found much more willing and open ears in a small country that, with barely 600,000 inhabitants, provided an example of how the whole world could be conquered more easily than a small nation could be defeated, where a spirit, a heart, a courage, and a goal united all. In just a few battles, the House of Austria was forced to purchase a costly armistice, and the small Tyrol, which had immediately taken up arms at its first call, bravely continued the war alone, offering resistance to the enemy armies that pressed into its valleys from both the south and the north.