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viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2019

TIME TABLE FOR "DAYS OF VICTORIES"

Translated from the Swedish of Werner von Heidenstam - this is an afterword chronology that the source material had.

DAYS OF VICTORIES. A TIME TABLE

1619 - Ferdinand II of the Austrian Habsburgs is crowned Kaiser of the Germanic Empire.
1630 - Gustavus Adolphus sets sail, lands on Pomeranian shores.
1631 - he defeats Tilly at Breitenfeld, storms the Marienburg, takes up winter quarters in the Rhineland.
1632 - he crosses the Lech, takes Munich, stops Wallenstein in his tracks of conquest, follows him afterwards into Saxony, and falls at Lützen on the 6th of November.
1634 - Wallenstein is assassinated.
1640 - Mary Eleanor flees Sweden.
1642 - The future Charles X enlists as a volunteer officer under Torstensson's command and heads into Germanic territories.
1645 - he is appointed commander-in-chief of the entire Swedish military.
1654 - Christina abdicates the throne, and is succeeded by Charles X.