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Attempting to interpret the book of Revelation, he promised the millennium in 1672, and guaranteed miraculous assistance to those who would undertake the destruction of the Pope and the house of Austria, even venturing to prophesy that Oliver Cromwell, Gustavus Adolphus, and George I Rákóczi, prince of Transylvania, would perform the task.
King Gustavus Adolphus gave away parts of the royal book collection in 1620: those books were the foundation of the Uppsala University Library.
Shallow formations are ideally suited for defensive deployments, but they are clumsy in offensive missions, the longer the frontage, the more difficult to maintain order and cohesion, or to perform any maneuver, especially wheeling ; Gustavus Adolphus understood well that far from being slow and ponderous, the assault columns like those used by Tilly were in fact faster and more flexible, and the Swedish King made use of them when required, like in the battle of Alte Veste ( see picture 3 ).
His portraits and historical figures, as those of Gustavus Adolphus ( 1849 ), of Charles XII ( 1851 ), of Charles XIII.

Adolphus and Gustavus
Of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles 12, it is unnecessary to speak.
* 1632 – Battle of Rain: Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years ' War.
The Whigs had gained control of the Tennessee legislature, and redrew Johnson's First District so as to ensure that House seat for their party, under the leadership of Gustavus Adolphus Henry, Sr .; the Nashville Union termed this " Henry-mandering ".
The success of the ensemble was emulated by other regional conductors, and a rich tradition of a cappella choral music was born in the region at colleges like Concordia College ( Moorhead, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois ), Wartburg College ( Waverly, Iowa ), Luther College ( Decorah, Iowa ), Gustavus Adolphus College ( St. Peter, Minnesota ), Augustana College ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota ), and Augsburg College ( Minneapolis, Minnesota ).
The first European general to introduce rapid movement, concentrated power and integrated military effort was Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 year war.
Her parents, George and Lorena Hall worked at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota from 1938-1952.
Her mother, Lorena ( Daeschner ) Hall, helped found Gustavus Adolphus College's Art Department and served as the department head.
Then, Camilla Hall attended Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
Gustavus Adolphus College Archives, St. Peter, Minnesota.
* 1594 – Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( d. 1632 )
During the Thirty Years ' War, the Vistula Lagoon was the main southern Baltic base of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who was hailed as the protector of the Protestants.
) has been widely known in English by his Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus Magnus and variously in historical writings also as Gustavus, or Gustavus the Great, or Gustav Adolph the Great (, a formal distinction passed by the Swedish Parliament in 1634 ).
With a superb military machine with good weapons, excellent training, and effective field artillery, backed by an efficient government which could provide necessary funds, Gustavus Adolphus was poised to make himself a major European leader, but he was killed at the battle of Lützen in 1632.
Gustavus Adolphus is commemorated today with city squares in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsingborg.
Gustavus Adolphus College, a Lutheran college in St. Peter, Minnesota is also named for the Swedish king.
Bust of King Gustav Adolph on campus at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota
Gustavus Adolphus was born in Stockholm as the oldest son of Duke Charles of the Vasa dynasty and his second wife, Christina of Holstein-Gottorp.
At the time, the King of Sweden was Gustavus Adolphus ' cousin Sigismund.
Sigismund III wanted to regain the throne of Sweden and tried to force Gustavus Adolphus to renounce the title.
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As his sister Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg was queen of Sweden, George William had to maneuver between requests of assistance from his Protestant brother-in-law King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden and his own Protestant counsellors on one side and his Catholic chancellor Count Adam von Schwarzenberg on the other.
Despite his attempts at neutrality, George William was forced by Gustavus Adolphus to join the Protestant forces in 1631.
The immediate occasion for the war was the uprising of the Protestant nobility of Bohemia against the emperor, but the conflict was widened into a European War by the intervention of King Christian IV of Denmark ( 1625 – 29 ), Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden ( 1630 – 48 ) and France under Cardinal Richelieu.

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His determined Prussian wife showed a strong dislike for this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa still resented his loss of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus ' father Charles IX.
Nevertheless, its princesses achieved prominent marriages: Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, sister of Duke Adolphus Frederick IV, married King George III in 1761, thus becoming queen consort of Great Britain.
Adolphus III ( d. 1225 ), his successor, received Dithmarschen in fee from the emperor Frederick I, but in 1203 the fortunes of war compelled him to surrender Holstein to Valdemar II of Denmark who mandated Albert of Orlamünde, the cession being confirmed in a Golden bull by the emperor Frederick II in 1214 and the pope in 1217, thus provoking the nobles in Holstein.
Gerhard VI died in 1404, and soon afterwards war broke out between his sons and Eric of Pomerania, Margaret's successor on the throne of Denmark, who claimed South Jutland as an integral part of the Danish monarchy, a claim formally recognised by the emperor Sigismund in 1424, it was not till 1440 that the struggle ended with the investiture of Count Adolphus VIII, Gerhard VI's son, with the hereditary duchy of Schleswig by Christopher III of Denmark.
In 1439, the new Danish king Christopher III ( also known as Christopher of Bavaria ) bought the loyalty of count Adolphus VIII of Holstein-Rendsburg by granting him the entire Duchy of Schleswig as a hereditary fief but under the Danish crown.
The title was next given, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom, to Prince Adolphus, the seventh son of George III.
Her father was Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the youngest surviving son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
He thus married into a richer family, by marrying his father's third cousin ( in descent from King George II of Great Britain ) Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and a granddaughter of George III, who was known as ' Fat Mary ' because of her wide girth.
Adolphus Cambridge, 1st Marquess of Cambridge, GCB, GCVO, CMG ( Adolphus Charles Alexander Albert Edward George Philip Louis Ladislaus ), born Prince Adolphus of Teck and later The Duke of Teck ( 13 August 1868 – 23 October 1927 ), was a member of the British Royal Family, a great-grandson of King George III and younger brother of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V. In 1900, he succeeded his father as Duke of Teck in the Kingdom of Württemberg.
His mother was the Duchess of Teck, ( formerly Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge ), the youngest daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and a granddaughter of King George III.
The Prince Adolphus, 1st Duke of Cambridge ( Adolphus Frederick ; 24 February 1774 – 8 July 1850 ), was the tenth child and seventh son of George III and Queen Charlotte.
Prince Adolphus was born at Buckingham Palace, the tenth child and seventh son of George III and Queen Charlotte, as well as being the youngest son to survive infancy.
George III appointed Prince Adolphus a Knight of the Garter on 6 June 1786, and created him Duke of Cambridge, Earl of Tipperary, and Baron Culloden on 17 November 1801.
His father was Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the 10th child and 7th son of King George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Her father was Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the seventh son of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
Swedish monarchs from Gustavus Adolphus ( d. 1632 AD ) to Gustaf V ( d. 1950 ) are entombed here ( with exceptions such as Queen Christina who is buried within St. Peter's Basilica in Rome ), as well as the earlier monarchs Magnus III ( d. 1290 ) and Charles VIII ( d. 1470 ).
Princess and Landgravine Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (; 25 July 1797 – 6 April 1889 ) was the consort of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
In 1797 she and her cousin Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, seventh son of King George III of Great Britain by his wife Queen Charlotte ( Frederica's paternal aunt ), were unofficially engaged.
Adolphustown was named for Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, a son of George III.
* Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, son of George III of the United Kingdom ( 1774 – 1850 )

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