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.

The princess was placed in the care of Gustavus Adolphus ' half-sister Catherine and the Chancellor Axel Oxenstierna.

Construction of the church started during the reign of Charles X of Sweden, and the church is named after Princess Catherine, mother of the king, wife of John Casimir, Palsgrave of Pfalz-Zweibrücken and half-sister of Gustavus Adolphus.

Accordingly, on his return from Vienna he wedded Catherine of Brandenburg, the daughter of the elector of Brandenburg, and still more closely allied himself with the Protestant powers, including his brother-in-law Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, who, he hoped, would aid him in obtaining the Polish crown.

The campaign was sure to be a struggle ; the Whigs nominated their " Eagle Orator " Gustavus Henry, and Johnson wasted no time in calling him to task for his " Henry-mandering " of the First District, as their debates made their way across the state from one county seat to the next.

Afterwards, Gustavus Adolphus often took his daughter with him to military reviews.

An image made by Gustavus Vasa during his reign showing him ( in dark brown clothing and cap ) capturing and subduing Catholicism ( the lady in orange ).

In Sweden in 1527 King Gustavus Vasa secured an edict of the Diet allowing him to confiscate any monastic lands he deemed necessary to increase royal revenues ; and to force the return of donated properties to the descendants of those who had donated them.

He expected no further move that year from the Protestant army, led by the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus, since unseasonably wintry weather was making it difficult to camp in the open countryside ; however, Gustavus Adolphus ' army marched out of camp towards Wallenstein's last-known position and attempted to catch him by surprise, but his trap was sprung prematurely on the afternoon of 15 November, by a small force left by Wallenstein at the Rippach stream, about 5 – 6 kilometres south of Lützen.

However, Gustavus Adolphus was not prepared to offer Frederick support for restoring him in the Palatinate because England and the Netherlands had not signed off on such a proposal.

Harte, the author of the Life of Gustavus Adolphus, acknowledged the aid which Carteret had given him.

He served with distinction under King Gustavus Adolphus, who regarded him as the best general in the Swedish army after Lennart Torstenson.

It was in the camp of Toll, then acting commander-in-chief in Scania, that Gustavus IV was about to take refuge when the western army rebelled against him, but he was arrested in the capital before he could do so.

From these tolls Gustavus derived, in 1629 alone, 500, 000 Riksdalers, a sum equivalent to the whole of the extraordinary subsidies granted to him by the Riksdag.

But he was also interested in modern literature and philosophy ; and the troubles of the times, of which he had personal experience, aroused in him a strong feeling of German patriotism, though throughout his life he was always proud of his connection with Scandinavia, and Gustavus Adolphus was his particular hero.

King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is said to have called him " the snow plow, who is going to clear the path for the rest ".

Gustavus Adolphus had a particular affection for him, trusting him with guarding the crucial strategic garrisons in North Germany while the main Swedish army established a foothold on the Baltic shoreline and advanced slowly southwards.

His pacifist and pro-French and pro-Polish attitudes often put him at odds with chancellor Axel Oxenstierna, who led Sweden's war effort in the Thirty Years ' War after the death of Gustavus Adolphus in 1632.

Gustavus sent his own personal physician to tend to his wounds which caused Tilly to tell him, " Your king is truly a noble knight.

When King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden landed in Germany Bernard quickly joined him, and for a short time he was colonel of the Swedish life horse guard.

* Adventures and Escapes of Gustavus Vasa, and how they carried him from his rather obscure origin to the throne of Sweden, 1945

His elder brother, the new King Gustavus II Adolphus felt genuine affection for him, as it was said, for his " many excellent qualities and his noble character ".

It was the second meeting between the two legendary generals ( see First Breitenfeld when Tilly received the first setback of his long and storied career ) and like at Breitenfeld, Tilly lost when Gustavus forced the River Lech under the cover of his superb artillery, and as there, Tilly was wounded several times and fell during the battle and was carried from the field by his men, ( who called him Father Tilly ), — only this time, he would not recover from his wounds.

In college, Elling sang in the 70-voice Gustavus Choir, an a cappella choir that performed works from a variety of different composers, allowing him to hone his technical skills.

After attending Robbinsdale Cooper High School, Gustavus Adolphus College, and the Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at American Repertory Theater at Harvard University, his first professional acting role was in Biloxi Blues, a Minnesota production at the Old Log Theater ; but his first big break came in 1994, when he was noticed by Ben Stiller, who cast him in his picture, Reality Bites.