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Early Modern era · 1642

Battle of Breitenfeld

The Second Battle of Breitenfeld, also known as the First Battle of Leipzig, took place during the Thirty Years' War on 2 November 1642 at Breitenfeld, north-east of Leipzig in Germany. A Swedish Army commanded by Lennart Torstensson defeated an Imperial Army under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and his deputy Ottavio Piccolomini.

Battle of Breitenfeld
Battle of Breitenfeld · Contemporary anonymous engraving., Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
When
23 Oct 1642
Where
Breitenfeld
Era
Early Modern

Topics

Germany1,250 BCE – today

Before and after

English Civil War1642 – 1651Battle of Edgehill1642Show on timeline

Text from the Wikipedia article Battle of Breitenfeld (1642), CC BY-SA 4.0