Lech, a right-hand tributary of the Danube, rises in the Alps in Vorarlberg, flows northward past Augsburg, and after a course of 177 miles joins the Danube a few miles east of Donauwörth. It is a mountain-stream and not navigable. Near Rain, not far from its mouth, the imperialist general Tilly was defeated and killed on 5th April 1632 by the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus.
Lech
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 553
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