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Gustavus Adolphus was the main figure responsible for the success of Swedish arms during the Thirty Years' War and led his nation to great prestige. As a general , Gustavus Adolphus employed mobile artillery on the battlefield, as well as very aggressive tactics, where attack was stressed over defense, and mobility and cavalry initiative were ...
He inherited the 30 years war from his cousin Matthias. He commanded more resources in Germany than any other prince during the 30 years war. Gustavus could not persuade the Polish king to a permanent peace of any sort, but Sigismund concluded a truce and granted the section of Livonia that the Swedes had already captured as a guarantee of the ...
The Thirty Years' War, [j] from 1618 to 1648, was one of the most destructive conflicts in European history. ... Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, ...
It was the Protestants' first major victory of the Thirty Years War. Sweden entered the Thirty Years' War in 1628 in an attempt to prevent the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II from expanding his power to the Baltic Sea and threaten Swedish territory. King Gustavus Adolphus landed with a Swedish army in the Duchy of Pomerania in 1630 to intervene ...
The Battle of Lützen, fought on 16 November 1632, [c] is considered one of the most important battles of the Thirty Years' War.Led by the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, an Allied army primarily composed of troops from Sweden, Saxony, and Hesse-Kassel, narrowly defeated an Imperial force under Albrecht von Wallenstein.
During the Thirty Years' War, Administrator Christian William entered into an alliance with Denmark. [9] In 1626, he led an army from Lower Saxony into the Battle of Dessau Bridge. After Wallenstein won this battle, Christian William fled abroad. [10]: 164 In 1629, he fled to the court of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden. [9]
The Bavarian campaign (Swedish: Bayerska fälttåget; French: Campagne de Bavière) was a Franco–Swedish campaign into Bavaria in 1646 to 1647 in an attempt to remove Bavaria as an active belligerent in the ongoing Thirty Years' War.
In 1625, after the truce between Sweden and the Commonwealth had ended, and Denmark had been eliminated as a threat to Sweden after their entry into the Thirty Years' War, Gustavus Adolphus, the King of Sweden, decided to conduct a new invasion into Livonia.