Battle of Breitenfeld (1642)
- Battle of Breitenfeld (1642)
Infobox Military Conflict
conflict=Battle of Breitenfeld
partof=the Thirty Years' War
caption=
date=October 23, 1642
place=Breitenfeld, Saxony
result=Decisive Swedish victory
combatant1=flag|Sweden
combatant2=flag|Holy Roman Empire
commander1=Lennart Torstenson
commander2=Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, Ottavio Piccolomini
strength1=15,000
strength2=25,000
46 guns
casualties1=4,000 killed and wounded
casualties2=15,000 killed and wounded
5,000 prisoners
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 [http://www.uni-mannheim.de/mateo/camenaref/cmh/cmh414.html#398 Preliminaries of Hamburg] .
ee also
* Battle of Breitenfeld (1631)
* Battle of Leipzig (1813)
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