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Hace 1 día · Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, known as the "Lion of the North", at the Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631. From 1626 to 1629, Gustavus was engaged in a war with Poland–Lithuania, ruled by his Catholic cousin Sigismund, who also claimed the Swedish throne and had Imperial support.
Hace 1 día · In a pitched battle, the Swedish army defeated Wallenstein's forces, but King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the 'father of modern warfare', was killed during a confused cavalry charge which he had personally led.
- 1630-1635
- Throughout the Holy Roman Empire
Hace 4 días · Gustavus Adolphus's intervention in Germany provided renewed hope, since the Swedish king 'saw that no peace in Germany was secure or feasible without Frederick's restoration' (p. 270).
Hace 2 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 3 días · His military success caused the tottering Protestants to call in Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden. Soon, some of Ferdinand's allies began to complain about the excessive power exercised by Wallenstein, as well as the ruthless methods he used to finance his vast army.
Hace 2 días · Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, Bohemian expectations from friendship of Elector Palatine with, 89. -, to meet King of Bohemia and German Protestant Union at Nuremberg, 104. -, States General disinclined to treat with Spain without approval of, 259.
Hace 5 días · Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, ISBN: 9780333574102; 448pp.; Price: £60.00. Reviewer: Dr Sarah Mortimer. Christ Church, Oxford. Citation: Dr Sarah Mortimer, review of British Political Thought, 1500-1660: The Politics of the Post-Reformation, (review no. 822) https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/822. Date accessed: 31 May, 2024.
