Lennart Torstensson
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Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal and later Governor-General of Pomerania, Västergötland, Dalsland, Värmland and Halland. He adapted the use of artillery on the battlefield, making it a more
Lennart Torstensson painted 1648 by unknown artist.
Torstenson's campaigns in Eastern Germany in 1642.
Gustavus Adolphus
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Gustavus Adolphus, also known as Gustav II Adolf or Gustav II Adolph, was King of Sweden from 1611 to 1632. He is credited with the rise of Sweden as a great European power. During his reign, Sweden b
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…Sweden and trusted by Duke Charles, but he fell at the Battle of Kircholm in 1605. At the age of fifteen he became one of the pages of the young King Gustavus Adolphus and was allowed to observe the military campaign in Livonia. He also served during the Prussian campaigns of 1628 and 1629. It is told that at one…
Portrait attributed to Jacob Hoefnagel, 1624
Gustav Adolf's parents, King Charles IX and Queen Christina
Gustavus Adolphus at Breitenfeld in 1631
Death of Gustavus Adolphus at Lützen by Carl Wahlbom (1855)