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Hace 5 días · The Vasa was a magnificent warship commissioned by King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in 1625, during a time of conflict with Poland. Designed to be a symbol of Sweden‘s military might, the ship was adorned with intricate carvings and equipped with 64 guns, capable of accommodating up to 300 soldiers.
Hace 5 días · Sweden, a major military power in the day, intervened in 1630 under the great general Gustavus Adolphus and started the full-scale great war on the continent. Spain, wishing to finally crush the Dutch rebels in the Netherlands and the Dutch Republic, intervened under the pretext of helping their dynastic Habsburg ally, Austria.
Hace 3 días · He rightly dismisses the suggestion that Gustavus Adolphus wanted to create a new universal monarchy, as a sort of Protestant Charles V and at the same time as a successor to the Goths and Vandals – the legendary forbears of the Swedes – who had in late antiquity conquered Rom.
Hace 13 horas · Gustavus Adolphus is often regarded by military historians as one of the greatest military commanders of all time, with innovative use of combined arms. [n 6] As the heiress presumptive, at the age of six Christina succeeded her father on the Swedish throne (being the only person left in the line of succession), although a regency government would rule in her name until she turned 18 years of age.
Hace 2 días · She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death at the Battle of Lützen in 1632, but began ruling the Swedish Empire when she reached the age of eighteen. [7] The Swedish queen is remembered as one of the most erudite women of the 17th century. [8]
Hace 5 días · The Reserve of Foot was commanded by Colonel John Henderson a Scottish Gentleman; and the Reserve of Horse by Col. Oeme of the Palatinate. Walensteins Order. The Imperial Army had his Excellency the Generalissimo thus ordered. He first drew it all up into one mighty Front; which he then divided into three Bodies.
Hace 4 días · Louis XIV had pretensions in the Palatinate in the name of his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Charlotte, and threatened further annexations of the Rhineland. Thus, Frederick-William, spurning his French subsidies, ended his alliance with France and reached agreements with William of Orange, the Emperor and King Charles XI of Sweden , the last of which by temporarily putting aside their differences ...
