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Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bernhard, duke of Saxe-Weimar (1604 - July 18, 1639), a celebrated general in the Thirty Years' War, was the eleventh son of John, duke of Saxe-Weimar. |
 | | At the Alte Veste he displayed the greatest courage, and at the Battle of Lützen (1632), when Gustavus was killed, Bernhard assumed the command, killed a colonel who refused to lead his men to the charge, and finally by his furious energy won the victory at sundown. |
 | | Bernhard had in the first instance received definite assurances from France that he should be given Alsace and Hagenau, Würzburg having been lost in the debacle of 1634; he now hoped to make Breisach the capital of his new duchy. |
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