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

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 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.

In a round of this dynastic dispute, Gustavus invaded Livonia when he was, beginning the Polish-Swedish War ( 1625 – 1629 ).

Gustavus intervened on the anti-Imperial side, which at the time was losing to the Holy Roman Empire and its Catholic allies ; the Swedish forces would quickly reverse that situation.

Gustavus was married to Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, the daughter of John Sigismund, Elector of Brandenburg, and chose the Prussian city of Elbing as the base for his operations in Germany.

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.

A detachment of the Swedish fleet took the women over to Kalmar, where Gustavus Adolphus was impatiently awaiting them.

Gustavus Adolphus shared Maria Eleonora's interest in architecture and her love of music, while she was sentimentally devoted to her husband.

Soon Gustavus Adolphus ' intimates knew that his married life was a source of grief and anxiety.

With Gustavus Adolphus risking his life in battles, an heir to the throne was anxiously awaited.

Gustavus Adolphus ' half-sister Catherine to inform him that the child was a girl.

In 1627 Gustavus Adolphus was both ill and wounded.

Gustavus Adolphus was devoted to his daughter and tried to rear Christina as a boy.

Gustav Theodore Holst ( born Gustavus Theodore von Holst, 21 September 187425 May 1934 ) was an English composer.

* Gustavus Green ( 1865 – 1964 ), aircraft engine pioneer, was born in Hounslow

He was born in Västerås, the son of Bishop Johannes Rudbeckius, who was personal chaplain to King Gustavus Adolphus, and the father of botanist Olof Rudbeck the Younger.

* Gustavus Esselen ( 1888 – 1952 ), chemist, born in Roxbury

On March 15, 1920, a formal constitution was adopted and the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was born, with Carleton College, Gustavus Adolphus College, Hamline University, Macalester College, Saint John's University, St. Olaf College, and the University of St. Thomas.

" Sir James Lumsden, a soldier of fortune under Gustavus Adolphus, who distinguished himself in the Thirty Years ' War, was born in the parish of Kilrenny about 1598.

* March 29 – Gustavus Franklin Swift, founder of Swift and Company which pioneered the use of refrigerator cars in late 19th century America ( born 1839 )

One of eleven children of German émigrés Leopold and Barbara Schlager Stoeckel, Gustav Stickley was born Gustavus Stoeckel on March 9, 1858, in Osceola, Wisconsin.

Gustavus Conyngham ( about 1744 – 27 November 1819 ) was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and was a merchant sea captain, officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.

Schwatka was born in Galena, Illinois the son of Federick Gustavus Sr. and Amelia ( Hukill ) Schwatka.

Eli Lilly was born the son of Gustavus and Esther Lilly in Baltimore, Maryland on July 8, 1838.

Gustavus Brander ( 1720-1787 ), English naturalist, who came of a Swedish family, was born in London in 1720, and was brought up as a merchant, in which capacity he achieved success and became a director of the Bank of England.

George Gustav ( or Gustavus ) Zerffi, born with the surname Cerf or perhaps Hirsch ( 21 May, 1820-January 28, 1892 ) was a Hungarian journalist, revolutionist and spy.