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Gustavus Adolphus   /gˈəstəvəs ədˈɔlfəs/   Listen
Gustavus Adolphus

noun
1.
King of Sweden whose victories in battle made Sweden a European power; his domestic reforms made Sweden a modern state; in 1630 he intervened on the Protestant side of the Thirty Years' War and was killed in the battle of Lutzen (1594-1632).  Synonyms: Gustavus, Gustavus II.






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"Gustavus Adolphus" Quotes from Famous Books



... duty,' said the good old man, 'and questionless they are doing what they think theirs. It grieves me sometimes to look upon these blackened walls of the house of my ancestors; but doubtless officers cannot always keep the soldier's hand from depredation and spuilzie, and Gustavus Adolphus himself, as ye may read in Colonel Munro his "Expedition with the Worthy Scotch Regiment called Mackay's Regiment" did often permit it. Indeed I have myself seen as sad sights as Tully-Veolan now is when I served with the Marechal ...
— Waverley, Or 'Tis Sixty Years Hence, Complete • Sir Walter Scott

... Great, and numbering not less than forty millions of subjects under its various sovereigns. Nor let it be said that these nations were rude in the military art, and unfit to contend in the field with the descendants of the followers of Gustavus Adolphus. The Danes are the near neighbours and old enemies of the Swedes; their equals in population, discipline, and warlike resources. Thirty years had not elapsed since the Poles had delivered Europe from Mussulman bondage by the glorious victory ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 • Various



Words linked to "Gustavus Adolphus" :   male monarch, Gustavus, king, Rex



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