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BATTLE OF See also:LUTZEN See also:November 16th., x632 See also:Scale of [ Mile )f )3 See also:German See also:Army I=Cn See also:Swedish Army 1:11 reoee u., .See also:eel. 0 . E.Seer. Oaf Adel/..7 pre.teelee .1 Jnl.0 See also:ea., 84. k D.nlel..on. L..l See also:battery of heavy guns, and the " Swedish " 1 and " Yellow" brigades engaged the See also:left See also:face of the Imperialist See also:lozenge with success. But a See also:gap opened between the right of the See also:infantry and the left of the See also:cavalry and See also:Wallenstein's second See also:line squadrons pressed into it. It was this which brought Gustavus from the extreme right, and he was killed here in leading a See also:counter See also:charge. On the extreme left, meanwhile, the " See also:Green " See also:brigade had come to See also:close quarters with Wallenstein's infantry and guns about Lutzen, and the heavy See also:artillery had gone forward to close range between the " Green " and the " Yellow " infantry. But the See also:news of Gustavus's See also:death spread and the See also:fire of the See also:assault died out. Wallenstein advanced in his turn, recaptured his guns and drove the Swedes over the road. But the fiery See also:Duke Bernhard of See also:Saxe-See also:Weimar took up the command and ordered a fresh advance. He was too See also:good a soldier to See also:waste his reserves and only brought up a few See also:units of the second line to help the disordered brigades of the first.

Again the Imperialists were driven in and their guns recaptured, this See also:

time all along the line. About three in the afternoon the Swedes were slowly bearing back Wallenstein's stubborn infantry when See also:Pappenheim appeared. The famous cavalry See also:leader had brought on his mounted men ahead of the infantry and asking, " Where is the See also:king of See also:Sweden ?" charged at once in the direction of the enemy's right. Wallenstein thus gained time to re-establish his See also:order, and once more the now exhausted brigades of the Swedish first line were driven over the road. But Pappenheim See also:fell in the moment of victory and his death disheartened the Imperialists almost as much as the fall of Gustavus had disheartened the Swedes. For the last time Bernhard, wounded as he was, forced the Swedish army to the attack. The three infantry brigades of his second line had not been engaged,2 and as usual the last closed reserve, resolutely handled, carried the See also:day. Wallenstein's army gave way at all points and the Swedes slept on the battlefield. The infantry of Pappenheim's See also:corps did not appear on the See also:field until the battle was over. Of the losses on either See also:side no accurate statement can be given, but the Swedish " Green " and " Yellow " brigades are said to have lost five-sixths of their See also:numbers. Near the spot where Gustavus fell a See also:granite See also:boulder was placed in position on the day after the battle. A See also:canopy of See also:cast-See also:iron was erected over this " Schwedenstein " in 1832, and close by, a See also:chapel, built by Oskar Ekman, a See also:citizen of See also:Gothenburg (d.

1907), was dedicated on the 6th of November 1907. Lutzen is famous also as the See also:

scene of a victory of See also:Napoleon over the Russians and Prussians on the 2nd of May 1813 (see See also:NAPOLEONIC See also:CAMPAIGNS). This battle is often called See also:Gross Gorschen. B I BLIOG RA PH v.—The foregoing See also:account of Gustavus's last victory is founded chiefly upon Lieut.-See also:Colonel Hon. E. See also:Noel's Gustaf Adolf (See also:London, 1904) and a See also:paper by the same officer in the See also:Journal of the See also:United States Institution of See also:India (Oct. 1908), which should be consulted for further details.

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