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Swedes under King Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperialists under Wallenstein
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lutzen
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is a town in the Burgenlandkreis district of Saxony-Anhalt , Germany .
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Lutzen \Lutzen\ n. A battle in the Thirty Years' War (1632) at which the Swedes under King Gustavus Adolphus defeated the Imperialists under Wallenstein, and in which Adolphus was killed. Syn: battle of Lutzen.
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The news followed the clamour, news of two battles, at Bautzen and Lutzen, battles that had repelled both the northern enemies who had now signed a truce.
Then La Beresina, then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipzig, and the defiles of Gelenhausen.
At Friedland, a thrust from a bayonet, there, -- at the Moskowa seven or eight lance-thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a splinter of a shell crushed one of my fingers.
Then he saw Moscow, then the Beresina, then Lutzen, Bautzen, Dresden, Wachau, Leipsic, and the defiles of Glenhausen, then Montmirail, Château-Thierry, Caron, the banks of the Marne, the banks of the Aisne, and the formidable position at Laon.
I got two sabre slashes in my neck at Marengo, a ball in my right arm at Austerlitz, another in my left hip at Jena, at Friedland a bayonet thrust—there,—at Moscow seven or eight lance thrusts, no matter where, at Lutzen a shell burst which crushed my finger—Ah!
After Gustav Adolf’s death at Lutzen in 1632, Oxenstierna became the de facto ruler of Sweden so long as Princess Kristina was a minor.