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Gustavus Adolphus

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Gustavus Adolphus [əˈdɒlfəs], Gustavus II
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(Biographies / Gustavus Adolphus (1594-1632) M, Swedish, POLITICS: hereditary ruler, MILITARY: general) 1594-1632, king of Sweden (1611-32). A brilliant general, he waged successful wars with Denmark, Russia, and Poland and in the Thirty Years' War led a Protestant army against the Catholic League and the Holy Roman Empire (1630-32). He defeated Tilly at Leipzig (1631) and Lech (1632) but was killed at the battle of Lützen
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Noun1.Gustavus AdolphusGustavus Adolphus - king of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632)
Gustavus II, Gustavus


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Gustavus Adolphus (they call him "Gusty" down-stairs for short) is a very good sort of dog when he is in the middle of a large field or on a fairly extensive common, but I won't have him indoors.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. View in context
Gustavus Adolphus and his Swedes passed through more than once, as is duly recorded in archives still preserved, for we are on what was then the high-road between Sweden and Brandenburg the unfortunate.
Elizabeth and her German Garden by Von Arnim, Elizabeth View in context
He had accordingly stationed his brigade in such a manner that, viewed from above and from a distance, one would have pronounced it the Roman triangle of the battle of Ecnomus, the boar's head of Alexander or the famous wedge of Gustavus Adolphus.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
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