Everything about Battle Of Breitenfeld 1642 totally explained
The
Second Battle of Breitenfeld, also known as the
First Battle of Leipzig (
October 23,
1642), took place at
Breitenfeld (4 miles north-east of
Leipzig),
Germany, during the
Thirty Years' War— fully eleven years after the first battle at the crossroads village had unbottled the Swedish forces under
Gustavus II Adolphus wherein he'd handed
Count-Field Marshal Tilly his first major defeat in fifty years of soldiering on the same plain.
Both battles were decisive victories for
Swedish led forces during the protracted
Thirty Years' War in their intervention on behalf of various
Protestant "Princes" of the generally small German states against the
German Catholic League formed to stamp out Protestantism in Central Europe.
In this second clash between ideologies for the prized
Saxony city of Leipzig, the
Protestant forces, led by
Field Marshal Lennart Torstenson, defeated an army of the
Holy Roman Empire, led by
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and his deputy, Prince-General
Ottavio Piccolomini, Duke of Amalfi.
The Imperial army had 20,000 casualties, and 5,000 of them were taken prisoner. 46 guns were also seized. 4,000 Swedes were killed or wounded; among them, General
Torsten Stålhandske, who led the Finnish
Hakkapeliitta Cavalry, received a serious wound.
The battle enabled
Sweden to occupy
Saxony. His defeat made Emperor
Ferdinand III more willing to negotiate peace, and renounce the
Preliminaries of Hamburg
.
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