Gustavus Adolphus Lands in Germany
July 6, 1630
The Lion of the North stepped ashore on the Pomeranian coast with thirteen thousand disciplined Swedes and an arquebus and a prayer. Fresh from reforming tactics and army finance, he brought the Thirty Years' War a commander who could actually defeat Habsburg forces. Protestant Germany breathed for the first time in years.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.