Search results
People also ask
When was the Second Battle of Breitenfeld?
Who won the Battle of Breitenfeld?
Why was the Battle of Breitenfeld important?
Why did Sweden win the Battle of Breitenfeld?
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 commanded by Lennart Torstensson decisively defeated an Imperial Army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and his deputy Ottavio Piccolomini .
- Battle of Breitenfeld
The Battle of Breitenfeld (German: Schlacht bei Breitenfeld;...
- Breitenfeld (1642) order of battle
Breitenfeld (1642) order of battle. The Second Battle of...
- Battle of Breitenfeld
Battle of Breitenfeld, (Sept. 17, 1631), the first major Protestant victory of the Thirty Years’ War, in which the army of the Roman Catholic Habsburg emperor Ferdinand II and the Catholic League, under Johan Isaclaes, Graf von Tilly, was destroyed by the Swedish-Saxon army under King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden.
Jun 12, 2006 · Thirty Years’ War: Battle of Breitenfeld. King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden arrived too late to save Magdeburg, but at Breitenfeld he changed the course of the Thirty Years' War -- and the state of the military art. by Don Hollway 6/12/2006. Share This Article.
- Don Hollway
Quick Reference. Two battles during the Thirty Years War, which take their name from a village near Leipzig. The first was fought on 17 September 1631, between Count Johannes Tilly's Catholic forces and the Protestant army of Gustavus II (Adolphus) of Sweden.
Imperialist forces of the Holy Roman Emperor sacked the city of Magdeburg four months before the Battle of Breitenfeld. Undoubtedly, Gustavus’s most notable contribution to the modernization of warfare was the application of mobile cannon to the battlefield.
