Gustavus Adolphus

Biography

The Swedish king entered the Thirty Years War 1630, saving the Protestant cause at Breitenfeld. His tactical reforms, linear formations, mobile artillery, combined arms, the thin Swedish brigades, professional standing army, made him the father of modern war. Died at Lutzen charging through the fog, the leather king. Sweden briefly a great power, the stormaktstid his daughter Christina and chancellor Oxenstierna managed after.