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The Lion from the North - The Swedish Army During the Thirty Years War Volume 2 1632-48 (Paperback)
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The Lion from the North - The Swedish Army During the Thirty Years War Volume 2 1632-48 (Paperback)
Series: Century of the Soldier
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The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army
during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King
Gustavus Adolphus. At this time, military operations were handled
by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish
Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna. The book expands our understanding of
the Swedish army during the Thirty Years War by focusing on its
later operations, including those against Polish and Danish
opponents, and not only on the better-known operations in Germany
against the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Empire. Meanwhile,
Oxenstierna continued his administrative reforms, which enabled
Sweden consistently to raise troops, despite the small population
of Sweden and its territories, and enabled an intelligence and
logistics system which could supply the armies, despite the vast
geographical depth of operations. While the Swedish army of
Gustavus Adolphus positioned Sweden as an emerging great power, it
was the subsequent developments of the army under Oxenstierna that
enabled the Swedish rise to regional great power status. While the
army of Gustavus Adolphus has been described elsewhere, the Swedish
army's later developments are less well known. Moreover, the book
includes current research that has not yet appeared in the English
language. It also describes the 1643-1645 Swedish invasion of
Denmark ('Torstensson's War') and the battles and sieges, including
those of Vienna and Prague, that led up to the Peace of Westphalia,
which concluded the Thirty Years War. Finally, the book covers the
military aspects of the establishment of Sweden's first American
colony.
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