Where resistance was brave it appeared fruitless: strassburg capitulated on September 28, after the Germans had burned its library and bombarded the cathedral.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
When the town clerk of strassburg came to Mainz the exile caused him to be arrested for a debt due to his family, and the matter had to be arranged to avoid a quarrel between the two cities.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
But even before 1462 two other cities possessed the art-Bamberg and strassburg.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard