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Swedish and advance
The Swedish victory prolongs the Thirty Year's War and allows them to advance into Bohemia.
The brothers were in great disagreement and Frederick II negotiated a treaty with Ivan IV on August 7, 1562 in order to help his brother obtain more land and stall further Swedish advance.
Rayleigh and Ramsay received the 1904 Nobel Prizes in Physics and in Chemistry, respectively, for their discovery of the noble gases ; in the words of J. E. Cederblom, then president of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, " the discovery of an entirely new group of elements, of which no single representative had been known with any certainty, is something utterly unique in the history of chemistry, being intrinsically an advance in science of peculiar significance ".
A skirmish delayed the Swedish advance by two or three hours, thus when night fell the two armies were still separated by about 2 – 3 kilometres ( 1 – 2 miles ).
Morning mist delayed the Swedish army's advance, but by 9 AM the rival armies were in sight of each other.
They ordered an advance by the Imperial troops which resulted in the quick collapse and rout of the weakened Swedish left wing infantry brigades.
During the dramatic advance of the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus into Germany, the town was garrisoned by Swedes, but it was retaken by Imperial-Catholic League forces in 1631.
In 1563, Norwegian troops stopped the Swedish advance at Elverum, which provided a strategic point since it lay on both north-south and east-west trade and travel routes.
The Russian advance in May liberated Swedish Pomerania, but lack of money and supplies meant the Swedish commander could only start campaigning that August.
His goal was to besiege Stettin and in preparation for this Lantingshausen allowed Axel von Fersen to take 4, 000 men to capture Usedom and Wollin-this objective was met after the Battle of Frisches Haff ensured Swedish naval supremacy in September-while Lantingshausen took the main body of the army to advance deep into Prussian Pomerania, where he then remained still for a long while.
Swedish war plan to first capture Vyborg and then advance further towards Saint Petersburg.
But this was the limit of the Swedish advance.
The Swedes who were overall superior in training, discipline and equipments got this rapid advance called the Swedish Deluge.
The rapid Swedish advance became known in Poland as the Swedish Deluge.
One Swedish army was to advance through Finland ; a second army, accompanied by the Swedish coastal flotilla, was to advance along the Finnish coast into the Gulf of Finland ; while a third army sailed with the Swedish battlefleet in order to land at Oranienbaum to advance on Saint Petersburg.

Swedish and soon
From 1648, the Cossack Khmelnytsky Uprising engulfed the south and east, and was soon followed by a Swedish invasion, which raged through core Polish lands.
Initially beginning his career as a chemistry and mathematics teacher after leaving school at the age of 15, Anderson soon entered the Swedish popular music scene, becoming a music producer, manager and also occasional performer.
He soon became an honorary member of many foreign academies and philosophic societies notably the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences ( 1785 ), in Germany, Imperial Russia, and the United States.
Very soon a " large colony of beachcombers, escaped convicts, and ship's deserters became established ashore ," identified as " chiefly bad characters ," according to the log of the Swedish frigate Eugenie.
The Swedish nobility grew increasingly unhappy with Danish rule and the union soon became merely a legal concept with little practical application.
Barnevik started his professional career in the Swedish company Datema, but soon moved to Sandvik.
Ignoring his illness, he repeatedly went to inspect the Swedish forces near Gothenburg, and soon broke down with chills, headaches and dyspnoea.
At the age of seventeen he joined the Swedish army in Jämtland, serving in the Jämtland Field Ranger Regiment, as a Second Lieutenant, but was soon promoted to Lieutenant.
Though initially cool to the idea of a commoner queen, the Swedish press quickly warmed to Queen Silvia and soon began publishing admiring articles about how easily she fit into the country's expectations of queenly deportment.
During the war, Peter I of Russia had occupied all Swedish possessions on the eastern Baltic coast: Swedish Ingria, where the soon to be new Russian capital of St. Petersburg was begun in 1703, Swedish Estonia and Swedish Livonia, which had capitulated in 1710, and Finland.
The Russian line was longer than the Swedish line, and the Russian right flank, led by Menshikov, soon flanked the Swedish infantry.
Pitkänen was arrested and repatriated to Finland, but Törni fell in love with a Swedish Finn, Marja Kops, and was soon engaged to be married.
The nobles, including his former supporter Bo Jonsson Grip, Sweden's largest landowner who controlled a third of the entirety of the Swedish territory and had the largest non-royal wealth in the country, soon conspired to get rid of him, resenting his attempts to restrict the traditional privileges of the nobility, as well as his use of German officials to fill important administrative positions in the Swedish provinces.
His respite was temporary — the Swedish nobility soon enlisted the Danish regent's help to remove Albert from the Swedish throne.
In 1434 the farmers and mine workers of Sweden began a national and social rebellion which was soon used by the Swedish nobility in order to weaken the power of the king.
A music video by director Roger Johansson was created for the song " Renegade " and reached the top of the Swedish parade ; the same soon happened with the album itself, which reached gold status with over forty thousand copies sold.
Charles represented a growing nationalist tendency among the Swedish aristocracy which tried first to subjugate the other Scandinavian countries under Sweden but soon focussed on dissolving the Kalmar Union.
Bo Jonsson ( Grip ) used this power to personally usurp 1, 500 farms and he soon became Sweden's largest landowner, controlling a third of the entirety of the Swedish territory and possessing the largest non-royal wealth in the country.

Swedish and faltered
Even when Swedish leadership faltered, it did not fail, and the influx of French gold insured that the hostilities could continue.

Swedish and partly
This view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.
Further pressure was brought on the makers of the film, the Film i Väst film studio, who are partly financed by Swedish local authorities, including Åmål.
He was elected partly because a large part of the Swedish Army, in view of future complications with Russia, were in favour of electing a soldier, and partly because Bernadotte was also very popular in Sweden, owing to the kindness he had shown to the Swedish prisoners during the recent war with Denmark.
The introduction of compulsory gymnastics in Swedish schools in 1880 rested partly on a long tradition, from Renaissance humanism to the Enlightenment, of the importance of physical as well as intellectual training.
His partly stripped body was found an hour or two later, and was secretly evacuated from the field in a Swedish artillery wagon.
Winston Churchill claimed that Sweden during World War II ignored the greater moral issues and played both sides for profit, a criticism mimicked in criticism towards Sweden's policy towards the German occupation of Denmark and Norway upheld partly by transportation reinforcement through Swedish territory, sanctioned by Hansson's cabinet.
The introduction of compulsory gymnastics in Swedish schools in 1880 rested partly on a long tradition, from Renaissance humanism to the Enlightenment, of the importance of physical as well as intellectual training.
The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise partly finances Timbro, a libertarian, free-market think tank, via Stiftelsen Fritt Näringsliv ( The Swedish Free Enterprise Foundation ).
It appears as though this did not trouble him, partly because he still had a strong supporter in the Swedish King.
In the middle of 17th century it was partly damaged by Swedish army during Deluge ( history ) and then abandoned to the slow decay.
The World Health Organization ( WHO ) acknowledges Swedish men have the lowest rate of lung cancer in Europe, partly due to the low tobacco smoking rate, but does not argue for substituting snus for smoking, citing the effects of snus still remain unclear.
File: HemglassIceCreamVan. jpg | Swedish ice cream van ( Hemglass brand ) seen partly from above in Sundsvall, Sweden.
Article partly based on the corresponding article in Swedish Wikipedia
Clas Eriksson Fleming is more often referred to, partly erroneously, by the Finnish version of his name " Klaus Fleming ", this article uses his original Swedish name.
Lars Levi Læstadius ( January 10, 1800 – February 21, 1861 ) was a Swedish Lutheran pastor of partly Sami ancestry.
Hedningarna ( The Pagans ) is a Swedish and, for some years partly Finnish, folk music band that mixes electronics and rock with elements from old Scandinavian folk music.
The musical, partly in English, partly in Swedish, tells the story of Bergman's supposed relocation to Hollywood after his breakthrough with Smiles of a Summer Night ( 1956 ), and the surreal and discomforting encounter with the movie capital.
During the Thirty Years ' War, it was partly destroyed by Swedish troops, after which it was no longer inhabited on a regular basis.

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