"Wallenstein’s Army at Lützen" Topic
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| Tango01 | 03 Oct 2020 9:46 p.m. PST |
"North European historians have habitually portrayed Wallenstein's army as a raw, untried force, hastily assembled in early 1632 to replace Tilly's devastated legions and incapable of matching Gustav Adolf's veterans. In fact, many of Wallenstein's regiments had longer traditions than Sweden's Colour regiments. At least three of the units present at Lützen were raised in the 1610s, and many more in the 1620s; several had even faced the Swedes before, as part of a corps sent to help Poland in 1629. Wallenstein's forces were even more diverse than Gustav Adolf's. Recruited throughout Catholic Europe, they included Germans, Austrians, Czechs, Italians, Hungarians, Poles and Croatians. Italian officers were (like Gustav Adolf's Scots) highly valued. (Ordinary Italian soldiers were notoriously unreliable in the northern winter, and the men of Piccolomini's horse and Colloredo's foot regiments were mostly Germans.) Pappenheim's army included several regiments of Walloons (French-speaking Belgians), famed for their ferocity…"
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| Jcfrog | 04 Oct 2020 1:30 a.m. PST |
Don' say more diverse, some players will think they have to put in turks orSsenegalese moravians.
Mind me if hollywood ever does a film. |
| Tango01 | 04 Oct 2020 3:20 p.m. PST |
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| SteveTheTim | 06 Oct 2020 5:42 a.m. PST |
That ‘article' is a series of word-for-word extracts from Brzezinski's Osprey on Lutzen. Perhaps I'm blind but I don't see any attribution or acknowledgement. |
| Marcus Brutus | 06 Oct 2020 12:38 p.m. PST |
Not good Steve. I will take a look at my Osprey Lutzen and see how close the two are. |
| Tango01 | 06 Oct 2020 12:47 p.m. PST |
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| Marcus Maximus | 28 May 2021 2:18 a.m. PST |
@SteveTheTim that site is a prolific site for plagarising. |
| Bill N | 30 May 2021 8:57 a.m. PST |
I want to know who these "North European historians" are. Most of the accounts I've read depict Wallenstein's army as at least on par with the forces being lead by Gustavus Adolphus. |
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