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The Battle of Breitenfeld (German: Schlacht bei Breitenfeld; Swedish: Slaget vid Breitenfeld) or First Battle of Breitenfeld (in older texts sometimes known as Battle of Leipzig), was fought at a crossroads near Breitenfeld approximately 8 km north-west of the walled city of Leipzig on 17 September (Gregorian calendar), or 7 September (Julian calendar, in wide use at the time), 1631.
Horn Cuirassier Regiment (8 companies) - Marshal Gustav Horn (German) Baudissin Cuirassier Regiment (12 companies) - Gen. Wolf Heinrich von Baudissin (German) Caldenbach Cuirassier Regiment (8 companies) - Colonel Moritz Pensen von Caldenbach (German) Courville Cuirassier Squadron (5 companies) - Colonel Nicholas de Courville (German)
Stenbock Cuirassier (Swedish) Soop Cuirassier (Swedish) Silversparre Squadron (Swedish) Sack Squadron (Swedish) Sperreuter Squadron (Swedish) Stålhandske Cuirassier (Finnish) Tesenhaussen (Livonian) Domhoff Squadron (Kurland) Baudissin Cuirassier (German) B. Saxe-Weiver Cuirassier (German) Horn Cuirassier (German) Kotchtitzky Cuirassier (German)
The small companies of musketeers dispersed between the squadrons of horse fired a salvo at point blank range, disrupting the charge of the Imperialist cuirassier and allowing the Swedish cavalry to counterattack at an advantage. The same tactics worked an hour or so later when the imperial cavalry charged the Swedish left flank.
The armour of a cuirassier was very expensive; in England, in 1629, a cuirassier's equipment cost four pounds and 10 shillings (equivalent to £1,084.487 in 2025) [6], whilst a harquebusier's (a lighter type of cavalry) was a mere one pound and six shillings [7] (equivalent to £313.296 in 2025). [6]
Swedish cuisine (Swedish: svenska köket) is the traditional food of Sweden. Due to Sweden's large north-to-south expanse, there are regional differences between the cuisine of North and South Sweden .
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The Second Battle of Breitenfeld was a major engagement of the Thirty Years' War between the Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Emperor under Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria and Ottavio Piccolomini, supported by Saxon troops, and the Swedish Army under Lennart Torstensson.