Crossword-Solution: ISER 4 letters, 37 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Having in front of him the river Inn, guarded by a number of strong fortresses, and behind him two hostile armies, a disaffected country, and the river Iser, while his rear was covered by no tenable position, and no entrenchment could be made in the frozen ground, and threatened by the whole force of Wallenstein, who had at last resolved to march to the Danube, by a timely retreat he escaped the danger of being cut off from Ratisbon, and surrounded by the enemy.

Duke Bernard moving in his footsteps, and more fortunate than Gustavus, had spread his victorious banners between the Iser and the Inn; but the near approach of the enemy, vastly superior in force, obliged him to halt in his victorious career, and lead back his troops.

Maximilian sought shelter in Salzburgh, while the Swedes crossed the Iser, and forced their way as far as the Inn.

THOMAS CAMPBELL 1767–1844 HOHENLINDEN ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow; And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

But redder yet that light shall glow On Linden’s hills of stained snow; And bloodier yet the torrent flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.