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Battles/wars. Polish–Swedish War. Thirty Years' War. Torstenson War. Other work. Privy Councillor, Governor-General. Signature. Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad (17 August 1603 – 7 April 1651), was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer.
- 1624–1645
- Swedish Army
Apr 11, 2024 · Lennart Torstenson was a Swedish field marshal and artillerist who transformed the use of field artillery, making it mobile to a previously unknown degree. He won important victories in the Thirty Years’ War and in Sweden’s war against Denmark (1643–45). The son of a Swedish officer, Torstenson.
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Lennart Torstensson used gunpowder artillery in revolutionary ways to win victories for the Swedish army during the Thirty Years War. This article appears in: Summer 2021. By William E. Welsh. Thousands of Protestant Swedish and German soldiers struggled up the rain-slickened slopes of a high ridge in southern Germany on September 3, 1632.
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Lennart Torstenson (skrev sitt namn Linnardt Torstenson), född 17 augusti 1603 på Forstena, död 7 april 1651 i Stockholm, var en svensk greve och militär. Han blev överstelöjtnant 1628, överste 1630, general 1632, riksråd och fältmarskalk 1641. Dessutom blev han generalguvernör i Västergötland, Dalsland, Värmland och Halland. Han ...
- 1631−1641
- Johan Månsson
May 18, 2018 · Lennart Torstensson (1603-1651) became one of Sweden's greatest military heroes during the Thirty Years' War. He led Swedish artillery forces at two notable battles in the early 1630s. For the next several years, Torstensson commanded vast numbers of troops during battles and sieges stretching from the forests of Silesia (now Poland) to the ...
Jul 9, 2018 · Lennart Torstensson (1603-1651) became one of Sweden’s greatest military heroes during the Thirty Years’ War. He led Swedish artillery forces at two notable battles in the early 1630s. For the next several years, Torstensson commanded vast numbers of troops during battles and sieges stretching from the forests of Silesia (now Poland) to the ...
Swedish Field Marshal Lennart Torstensson was ordered to march against Denmark. Proceeding from Moravia, his forces entered Danish territory in Holstein on 12 December and by the end of January 1644 the Jutland peninsula was in his possession.
