Battle of Lutzen
November 16, 1632
In a foggy field south of Leipzig, Gustavus Adolphus led a desperate cavalry charge and disappeared. His body was found stripped and muddied after the battle; the Swedes won but their king was dead at thirty-seven. Protestant Europe had lost its champion; the war ground on without its brightest mind.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.