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Gustavus Adolphus [əˈdɒlfəs], Gustavus II

(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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Gustavus 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)

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