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Encyclopedia > List of Swedish military commanders

This is a list of Swedish military commanders. Several Swedish monarchs has also acted directly as military commanders. This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union up until the present time. ...


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Large flag of Sweden Image originally derived from the public domain flags of the CIA World Factbook. ... This is a list of well known Swedes (and Finland-Swedes), ordered alphabetically within categories: // Actors Main article: List of Swedish actors Greta Garbo Ann-Margret, entertainer Ingrid Bergman, (1915-1982), actress May Britt, (born 1933), actress Anita Ekberg, actress Gösta Ekman (senior), (1920-1971), actor Gösta Ekman... This is a list of Swedish actors: A Maud Adams Bibi Andersson Harriet Andersson Ann-Margret (actually Ann-Margret Olsson) Hans Alfredson B Ingrid Bergman, (1915-1982) D Alexandra Dahlström E Anita Ekberg, (born 1931) Britt Ekland Lena Endre G Greta Garbo, (1905-1990) H Peter Haber Lena T... This is a list of Swedish artists. ... This is a list of Swedish clergymen and theologians. ... This is a list of Swedish entrepreneurs and businessmen. ... This is a list of Swedish composers, musicians and singers: Carl Michael Bellman, (1740-1795) Jussi Björling Robyn Sixten Ehrling Lisa Ekdahl Sten Frykberg (1910-1983) Agnetha Fältskog, former member of the pop group ABBA Bo Hansson Jakob Hellman Nils Landgren Christian Lindberg Lars Lönndahl Yngwie J... This is a list of Swedish politicians. ... This is a list of Swedish language writers: A Alf Ahlberg (1892-1979) Ove Allansson (1932-) Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793-1866) Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom (1790-1855) B Victoria Benedictsson (1850-1888) Frans G. Bengtsson (1894-1954) Elsa Beskow (1874-1953) August Blanche (1811-1868) August Bondeson (1854-1906... This is a list of poets who wrote or write much of their poetry in Swedish: Evert Taube (1890-1976) Karin Boye (1900-1941) Elmer Diktonius (1896-1961) Nils Ferlin (1898-1961) Gustaf Fröding (1860-1911) Verner von Heidenstam (1859-1940) Erik Axel Karlfeldt (1864-1931) Oscar Levertin (1862...

17th century

Johan Banér (June 23, 1596 - May 10, 1641) was a Swedish soldier in the Thirty Years War. ... Count Per Brahe (February 18, 1602 - September 2, 1680) was a Swedish soldier and statesman. ... Nils Brahe (1604-1632), Swedish soldier and younger brother of Per Brahe that served with distinction under Gustavus Adolphus. ... Count Lennart Torstenson (August 17, 1603 - April 7, 1651) was a Swedish soldier and the son of Torsten Lennartson, commandant of Älvsborg Fortress. ... Carl Gustaf Wrangel (December 23, 1613 _ July 5, 1676) was a Swedish soldier. ...

18th century

Count Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt (March 31, 1757 – August 19, 1814) was a Swedish courtier and diplomat. ... Count Fredrik Axel von Fersen (1719_1794), Swedish statesman and soldier, was a son of Lieutenant_General Hans Reinhold Fersen and entered the Swedish Life Guards in 1740, and from 1743 to 1748 was in the French service in the Royal_Suedois, where he rose to the rank of brigadier. ... Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten (1727-1786) was a Swedish soldier and politician. ... Count Georg Magnus Sprengtporten, or Göran Magnus Sprengtporten as he preferred to call himself, (1740-1819), Swedish and Russian politician, younger brother of Jacob Magnus Sprengtporten, entered the army and rose to the rank of captain during the Seven Years War. ... Count Johan Christopher Toll (1743-1817), Swedish statesman and soldier, was born at Mölleröd in Scania. ...

19th century

Nils Magnus Brahe (1790-1844), Swedish statesman and soldier and a direct descendant of Per Brahe and Magnus I of Sweden, fought in the War against Napoleon (1813-1814), under the crown prince Bernadotte, with whom, after his accession to the throne as Charles XIV, he was in high favour. ... Georg Carl von Döbeln Döbeln at Jutas by Albert Edelfelt Baron Georg Carl von Döbeln (April 29, 1758-16 February 1820) was a Swedish soldier. ... Count Johan August Sandels (1764-1831) was a Swedish soldier and politician, being appointed Viceroy of Norway (Riksståthållare in Swedish, Rigsstatholder in Norwegian (Danish)) 1818 and Field Marshal in 1824. ...

Monarchs as military commanders

Main article: List of Swedish monarchs This is a list of Swedish monarchs, that is, the Kings and ruling Queens of Sweden with Regents and Viceroys of the Kalmar Union up until the present time. ...

Gustav II Adolf (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632 O.S.), widely known by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus and in Protestant propaganda as the Lion of the North, was King of Sweden from 1611 until his death. ... Charles X or Karl X Gustav (1622-Sweden, son of John Casimir, Margrave of Pfalz-Zweibrücken, and Catherine, sister of Gustavus Adolphus, was born at the Castle of Nyköping on November 8, 1622. ... Charles XI, or Karl XI, (November 24, 1655 – April 5, 1697) was a King of Sweden (1660 – 1697). ... Charles XII, Karl XII or Carolus Rex, (June 17, 1682 – November 30, 1718), the Alexander of the North, nicknamed in Turkish as Demirbaş Şarl (Charles the Habitue), was a King of Sweden (1697 – 1718). ... King Charles XIV of Sweden, Charles III of Norway, or domestically Karl XIV Johan and Carl III Johan respectively, Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte (January 26, 1763 – March 8, 1844) was born at Pau, France, the son of Henri Bernadotte (1711–1780), procurator at Pau, and Jeanne St. ...

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