Lion from the North Fredholm von Essen Michael
Lion from the North Fredholm von Essen Michael The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. The book…
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Lion from the North Fredholm von Essen Michael
The book describes and analyses the early modern Swedish army during the Thirty Years War after the death in 1632 of King Gustavus Adolphus. 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. At this time, military operations were handled by field marshals under the overall command of the Swedish Chancellor, Axel Oxenstierna.
While the Swedish army of Gustavus 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.