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The Lützen Death Ride: Sweden’s King Gustavus Adolphus Falls
In November 1632, on a fog-shrouded field near Lützen in Saxony-Anhalt, the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years’ War suffered its most devastating blow: King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the ‘Lion of the North,’ charged into battle with his Småland cavalry and never returned. This episode follows the morning fog, the tangled fighting around a ditch, the king’s fatal separation from his men, and the chaotic aftermath when his body was stripped by Imperial soldiers. We examine the competing accounts of his death, the role of his ally Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar, and the strategic consequences: did…
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