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22 de jun. de 2023 · In addition, Ludwig Philipp was to make a monthly Heilbronn League contribution of some £3,600, as well as raise £11,300 per month to maintain a military presence for the defence of the Lower Palatinate. 14 The administrator could never have raised such large amounts from the restored territories, which continued to incur ‘the unbearable burdens of war’, and the regular annual income of ...
30 de oct. de 2001 · The campaigns covered in this volume include the defeat of the Bohemian and German Protestants (1618-1623), the Danish War (1625-1629), the victories of the Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus (1630-1632), and the final defeat of the Swedes at Nordlingen in 1634. Guthrie also pays particular notice to the important battle of Breitenfeld.
Gustavus Adolphus (1611-32), of Sweden, also showed a strong desire to interfere in German affairs. At the outbreak of the Thirty Years War all these countries, it is true, were prevented from taking part in it by internal difficulties or by wars in other directions. Still the disposition to do so existed everywhere.
Gustavus Adolphus - Swedish Monarch, Thirty Years War, Reformer: The motives prompting his intervention have long been a subject of historical controversy. An older generation of historians saw him, as his contemporaries did, simply as the Protestant Hero, the “Lion of the North”; later, he was viewed as having been moved by purely political considerations; and in recent days he has been ...
15 de oct. de 2014 · If Gustavus Adolphus wanted to make himself Emperor of the Romans he would have had to get a majority of the seven electors to declare Emperor Ferdinand II deposed and himself elected. The electors in 1630-1632 included two, the Margrave of Brandenburg and the Duke of Saxe-Wittenburg, who were Protestants and likely - but not certain - to vote for Gustavus Adolphus as emperor.
King Gustavus Adolphus, “The Lion of the North,” was a quick learner and master reformer of the military, both on and off the battlefield. Oddly, the fall of the brilliant King Gustavus Adolphus on the field of battle marked both the beginning of Sweden’s rise to power and the end of one of the most aggressive ages of military reform.
17 de mar. de 2023 · You Can Thank the Swedes for Combined Arms Theory. Amid the Thirty Years’ War Protestant commander Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden finally crossed swords with Catholic commander Johann Tserclaes in 1631 at Breitenfeld, Saxony. by David T. Zabecki 3/17/2023. A contemporary painting by Flemish artist Pieter Snayers (1592–1697) captures the ...
