Gustavus Adolphus

/ əˈdɒlfəs /

noun

Gustavus Adolphus15941632MSwedishPOLITICS: hereditary rulerMILITARY: general 1594–1632, king of Sweden (1611–32). A brilliant general, he waged successful wars with Denmark, Russia, and Poland and in the Thirty Years' War led a Protestant army against the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Empire (1630–32). He defeated Tilly at Leipzig (1631) and Lech (1632) but was killed at the battle of Lützen

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Such a demand would have been deemed arrogant in Wallenstein, amid the successes of Gustavus Adolphus.

Gustavus Adolphus appeared, and by his efforts Protestantism is said to have been saved from extinction.

Gustavus Adolphus writes in a letter that the war would be long drawn out and stop from exhaustion.

The victorious career of Gustavus Adolphus soon gave him a presentiment of its approach.

What this great prince had merely sketched in rude outline, was filled up by Gustavus Adolphus, his still greater grandson.

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