The Second Battle of Breitenfeld was a major engagement of the Thirty Years' War between the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire under Archduke Leopold...
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Turenne to take control of most of the northern Upper Rhine. A decisive Swedish victory at Breitenfeld in November 1642 secured control of Northern Germany,...
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list of orders of battle, which list the known military units that were located within the field of operations for a battle or campaign. The battles are...
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Lennart Torstensson (redirect from Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortola)
through Saxony he crushed the imperial army at the second Battle of Breitenfeld on 23 October 1642. In 1643 Torstensson invaded Moravia for the second time...
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Saxony and Brandenburg-Prussia, victory at Breitenfeld in September 1631 gave Gustavus control over much of north and central Germany. While Elector John...
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Gott mit uns (category Battle cries)
as a 'field word', a means of recognition akin to a password, by the army of Gustavus Adolphus at the battles of Breitenfeld, Lützen and Wittstock in the...
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monogram had been cut from the fabric. Similarly, during the Battle of Breitenfeld (1642), near Leipzig, Colonel Madlo's cavalry regiment was the first...
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The Battle of Kempen, also known as Battle of the Kempen Heights, or Battle of Hückelsmay, took place on 17 January 1642 during the Thirty Years' War,...
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Annibale Gonzaga (redirect from Annibal Gonzague, Prince of San Martino)
named after him. In 1642 he commanded with Count Bruay the right wing of the Imperial army in the disastrous Battle of Breitenfeld. A year later, he commanded...
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Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War (redirect from Swedish invasion of the Holy Roman Empire)
Podelwitz, facing southwest toward Breitenfeld and Leipzig. The battle began around mid-day, with a two-hour exchange of artillery fire, during which the...
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