Battle of Breitenfeld

When

17 Sep 1631

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

51.40° N, 12.33° E

Description

Protestants’ first major victory of the Thirty Years War in 1631

Part of the Thirty Years' War

The Battle of Breitenfeld, 17 September 1631, took place during the Thirty Years' War outside Breitenfeld, Leipzig, in modern Saxony. In one of the most significant battles of the war, a combined Swedish-Saxon force defeated an army made up of Imperial and Catholic League troops.

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Thirty Years' War – Battle of Breitenfeld: Tilly's Holy Roman Imperial army is decisively defeated by Gustavus II Adolphus of Sweden”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Die Armeen der Schweden und Kursachsen unter Gustav II. Adolf besiegen in der Schlacht bei Breitenfeld den Feldherrn Johann t’Serclaes von Tilly”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire du roi (luthérien) Gustave II Adolphe de Suède à la bataille de Breitenfeld, au nord de Leipzig, où il écrase l'armée de la Ligue catholique”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “первая битва при Брейтенфельде (вторая 1642 год)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en Alemania ―en el marco de la Guerra de los Treinta Años (1618‑1648)― se produce la batalla de Breitenfeld en la que salen victoriosas las fuerzas protestantes”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Chinese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “布賴滕費爾德戰役，瑞典國王古斯塔夫二世·阿道夫與布蘭登堡和薩克森選帝侯聯合，於布賴滕費爾德會戰打敗神聖羅馬帝國的軍隊，佔領波美拉尼亞。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ブライテンフェルトの戦い。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

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