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  • ‘Father of Modern Warfare’ – Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631 – Gustavus Adolphus’ masterpiece

    ‘Father of Modern Warfare’ – Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631 – Gustavus Adolphus’ masterpiece

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    Battle of Breitenfeld 1631 marked the emergence of Sweden as a great power and the triumph of the new Swedish flexible linear tactics over the old massive infantry formations that had long dominated European warfare.

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    📢 Narrated by David McCallion

    🎼 Music:
    EpidemicSound
    Filmstro

    📚 Sources
    Richard Brzezinski – The Army of Gustavus Adolphus Volume 1: Infantry
    Richard Brzezinski – The Army of Gustavus Adolphus Volume 2: Cavalry
    Henrik O. Lunde – The Rise and Fall of Sweden as a Military Superpower, 1611-1721
    Lars Erikson Wolke – Gustavus Adolphus, Sweden, and the Thirty Years War, 1630-1632
    Russell Frank Wreighley – The Age of Battles: The Quest for Decisive Warfare from Breitenfeld to Waterloo

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