Ottavio Piccolomini
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Ottavio Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.
Portrait of Piccolomini by Anselm van Hulle, Collezione Luca Cristini
Ottavio Piccolomini at the Battle of Preßnitz
Engraving of Ottavio Piccolomini
Battle of Breitenfeld (1642)
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The Second Battle of Breitenfeld, also known as the First Battle of Leipzig, took place during the Thirty Years' War on 2 November 1642 at Breitenfeld, north-east of Leipzig in Germany. A Swedish Army
Ottavio Piccolomini
…army in Neunburg vorm Wald and Preßnitz while the rest escaped. In November 1642, the Imperials finally faced the entire Swedish army but lost the second battle of Breitenfeld against Lennart Torstensson. Thereafter he spent several years in the Spanish service and received the title of grandee and induction into the Order…
Contemporary engraving depicting the battle
The Swedes failed to take Freiberg in early 1643
First Battle of Leipzig 1642 on the flag of a Swedish 1927 Art Deco Medal, obverse