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 ).

Her parents, George and Lorena Hall worked at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota from 1938-1952.

She transferred to the University of Minnesota after her freshman year at Gustavus.

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.

Bust of King Gustav Adolph on campus at Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota

Upon his father's death in October 1611, a sixteen-year-old Gustavus inherited the throne ( declared of age and able to reign himself at seventeen as of 16 December ), as well as an ongoing succession of occasionally belligerent dynastic disputes with his Polish cousin.

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.

Despite his attempts at neutrality, George William was forced by Gustavus Adolphus to join the Protestant forces in 1631.

With his brother-in-law Gustavus dead in 1632, George William maintained the Swedish alliance until after the Swedish defeat at the Battle of Nordlingen on 6 September 1634.

This seems to indicate that Gustavus Adolphus, at the age of 33, had little hope of having other children.

The relatively rare attempts at forcing pitched battles ( Gustavus Adolphus in 1630 ; the French against the Dutch in 1672 or 1688 ) were almost always expensive failures.

The university rose to pronounced significance during the rise of Sweden as a great power at the end of the 16th century and was then given a relative financial stability with the large donation of King Gustavus Adolphus in the early 17th century.

Adolphus to those of Gustavus III., treated in the manner of Sir Walter Scott ; the five volumes of this work appeared at intervals between 1853 and 1867.

* April 15 – Thirty Years ' War – Gustavus Adolphus defeats Tilly for the second time within a year at the Battle of Rain.

His parents, Carl Gustavus and Gunda ( née Jacobson ) Lawrence, were both the offspring of Norwegian immigrants who had met while teaching at the high school in Canton, South Dakota, where his father was also the superintendent of schools.

Gustavus suppressed aristocratic opposition to his ecclesiastical policies and efforts at centralisation.

Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden | Gustavus Adolphus, victor at the Battle of Breitenfeld, 1631

Four and a half years later Charles IX died at Nyköping, 30 October 1611 when he was succeeded by his seventeen year old son Gustavus the Great, who'd participated in the wars.

* Amy Seham, drama professor at Gustavus Adolphus College, wrote a musical entitled " Tiresias " in 1999, with music by Chanda Walker and Kira Theimer.

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.

* Prof. George W. Anderson 1951-1952 ( English professor at Gustavus Adolphus College )

The Old Main building at Gustavus Adolphus College.

After the failure of the tercio system in the first Battle of Breitenfeld in 1631, the professional Spanish troops deployed at Nördlingen proved the tercio system could still contend with the deployment improvements devised by Maurice of Orange and the late Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.

But once Count Tilly falls during the Battle of Breitenfeld outside of Leipzig, King Gustavus Adolphus rapidly moves the war theater to Franconia and Bavaria, just south of Grantville.

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

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

On November 4, Christian was anointed by Gustavus Trolle in the Storkyrkan ( the " grand church " in Stockholm ), and took the usual oath to rule the kingdom through native-born Swedes only.

Gustavus took the Lutheran reformers under his protection and appointed his men as bishops.

Frederick subsequently took part in Gustavus Adolphus ' march into the Duchy of Bavaria, and was present for the march in to Munich on 17 May 1632.

Brahe took part in the long duel between Gustavus and Wallenstein around Nuremberg as general of infantry, and commanded the left wing at Lützen on November 6, 1632, where he was the only Swedish general officer present.

In 1623, while near Gdańsk ( Danzig ), he witnessed the arrogant attitude of Gustavus Adolphus, whose navy took opportunity of its sea superiority to demand concessions from Gdańsk ( Commonwealth had no navy ).

Gustavus matter, Gustavus Adolphus himself took the initiative.

" In Dublin, Gustavus Vaughan Brooke took up the part of William Tell vacated by Kean.

The Second Battle of Breitenfeld, also known as the First Battle of Leipzig ( 23 October 1642 ), took place at Breitenfeld ( some north-east of Leipzig ), Germany, during the Thirty Years ' War — fully eleven years after the first battle at the crossroads village had unbottled the Swedish forces under Gustavus II Adolphus wherein he had handed Field Marshal Count Tilly his first major defeat in fifty years of soldiering on the same plain.

A truce was eventually signed in 1611, but by 1617 war broke out again, and finally in 1621 the new Swedish king, Gustavus Adolphus, landed near Riga and took the city with a brief siege, wiping away-in Swedish eyes-much of the shame suffered at Kircholm.

Brooke's Gustavus Vasa was not particularly savage or dark, and it took relatively few liberties.

During World War II, Gustavus Adolphus College was one of 131 colleges and universities nationally that took part in the V-12 Navy College Training Program which offered students a path to a Navy commission.

In October 1846 she took the part of Juliet to the Romeo of Gustavus Brooke at Dublin.

Disturbances in Bohemia due to the Thirty Years War brought an end to the special devotions, and on November 15, 1631, the army of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden took possession of the churches of Bohemia's capital city.

He was the grandson of Per Brahe ( the elder ) ( 1520 – 1590 ), one of Gustavus Vasa's Privy Councillors, created count of Visingsborg by Eric XIV of Sweden, known also as the continuator of Peder Svart's chronicle of Gustavus, and author of Oeconomia in 1585, a manual for young noblemen.

in 1618, De la Gardie married Ebba Brahe, the love of young Gustavus Adolphus.

The character of the young elector had been stamped by his Calvinist nurturer Calcum, a long stay in the Dutch Republic during his grand tour, and the events of the war, of which a meeting with his uncle Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in Pomerania was among the most impressive.

Already at his return from his foreign studies in 1602, he was hired as tutor of the young Prince Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden, the future king, and was ennobled the following year, taking the name Skytte after an extinct noble family from which he claimed descent on the maternal side.

In 1604 the university requested Prince Gustavus Adolphus as chancellor but received the reply that the Duke was still too young to understand these matters.

Here he learned and perfected his seamanship skills, becoming an apprentice to Captain Henderson, who became a surrogate father to the young Gustavus.

On the occasion of the coronation ( 1752 ) he resigned the premiership, and in 1754 the governorship of the young crown prince Gustavus also, spending the rest of his days at his estate at Åkerö, where he died.