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Hace 3 días · 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 3 días · 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 · 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 · She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus upon his death at the Battle of Lützen at seven years old, but she began ruling the Swedish Empire when she reached the age of eighteen. During the Torstenson War in 1644, she initiated the issuance of copper in lumps to be used as currency.
Hace 2 días · Pages 731-739. Calendar of State Papers Relating To English Affairs in the Archives of Venice, Volume 22, 1629-1632.Originally published by His Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1919.
Hace 4 días · noun. king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632) synonyms: Gustavus, Gustavus Adolphus. see more. Cite this entry. Style: MLA. "Gustavus II."
Hace 5 días · György Rákóczi, II (born Jan. 30, 1621, Sárospatak, Hung.—died June 7, 1660, Nagyvárad, Transylvania, Hung.) was the prince of Transylvania from 1648, who had the laws of the principality codified, but whose foreign policy led to the restoration of Turkish hegemony over Transylvania.
