Gustavus Adolphus

/ əˈdɒlfəs /

noun

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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