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  WRAITH - LoveToKnow Article on WRAITH   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
WRANGEL, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ERNST, COUNT VON (1784-1877), Prussian general field marshal, was born at Stettin, on the I3th of April 1784.
WRANGEL, KARL GUSTAV VON (1613-1676), Swedish soldier, was descended from a family of Esthonian origin, branches of which settled in Sweden, Russia and Germany.
Karl Gustav was born near Upsala on the 23rd of December 1613, and at the age of twenty distinguished himself as a cavalry captain in the war against the Army of the League.
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 Carl Gustaf Wrangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He was the son of Herman Wrangel and was descended from a family of Baltic German origin, branches of which settled in Sweden, Russia and Germany.
Carl Gustaf was born near Uppsala and at the age of twenty distinguished himself as a cavalry captain in the war against the Army of the League.
Under Wrangel and Turenne the allied Swedish and French armies marched and fought in Bavaria and Württemberg.
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 Carl Gustav Wrangel - netlexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Unter Wrangels Befehl wurde 1641 ein Angriff der kaiserlichen Truppen unter Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm und Piccolomini bei Wolfenbüttel siegreich abgewehrt.
Zunächst zog Wrangel nach Hessen, eroberte Höxter und Paderborn und vereinigte sich schließlich bei Gießen mit Turenne, der trotz aller Finessen der Diplomatie nicht passiv bleiben konnte.
In den Jahren 1660 bis 1665 lässt Wrangel in Stralsund in der dortigen Heilgeiststraße sein Wrangelsches Palais errichten.
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 Carl Gustav Wrangel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Unter Wrangels Befehl wurde 1641 ein Angriff der kaiserlichen Truppen unter Erzherzog Leopold Wilhelm und Piccolomini bei Wolfenbüttel siegreichabgewehrt.
Hier befand er sich auf geschichtsträchtigemBoden, denn 1631 besiegte Gustav Adolf in der Schlacht bei Breitenfeld das kaiserliche Heer unter Tilly.
Seinenletzten Feldzug unternahm Wrangel 1674 gegen den Kurfürsten von Brandenburg, Friedrich Wilhelm.
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 Wrangel - Wikipedia
Fabian Graf von Wrangel († 1737), schwedischer Feldmarschall in kaiserlichen Diensten, Gouverneur von Brüssel
Hermann von Wrangel (1585-1643), schwedischer Feldmarschall, Reichsrat, Generalgouverneur von Livland
Wilhelm Baron Wrangell (1894-1976), estländischer Staatsrat, Präsident der deutschen Kulturverwaltung in Estland
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 Carl Gustav Wrangel -- Carl Gustav Wrangel, Graf von Salmis, er selbst schri...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Carl Gustav Wrangel -- Carl Gustav Wrangel, Graf von Salmis, er selbst schri...
Carl Gustav Wrangel, Graf von Salmis, er selbst schrieb sich zeit seines Lebens "Wrangell", (* 13.
Wrangel war seit 1657 Reichsadmiral und seit 1660 Generalgouverneur von Pommern.
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 Carl Gustaf Wrangel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
He was the son of Herman Wrangel and was descended from a family Baltic German origin branches of which settled in Russia and Germany.
Carl Gustaf was born near Uppsala and at the age of twenty himself as a cavalry captain in the against the Army of the League.
Wrangel's armoury: The weapons Carl Gustaf Wrangel took from Wismar and Wolgast to Skokloster, in 1645 and 1653
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 Carl Gustaf Wrangel : Karl Gustav von Wrangel
Carl Gustaf Wrangel : Karl Gustav von Wrangel
Carl Gustaf Wrangel (1613-1676), Swedish soldier, was descended from a family of Estonian origin, branches of which settled in Sweden, Russia and Germany.
His father, Hermann von Wrangel (1587-1643), was a Swedish field marshal in Gustavus Adolphus' wars.
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 WRANGEL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Fabian Graf von Wrangel († 1731), schwedischer Feldmarschall in kaiserlichen Diensten, Gouverneur von Brüssel
Friedrich Graf von Wrangel "Papa Wrangel" (1784-1877), volkstümlicher preußischer Heerführer, Gouverneur von Berlin
Karl Gustav Wrangel (1613-1676), schwedischer Feldherr und Staatsmann, Reichsmarschall, Reichsadmiral, Präsident des Kriegskollegiums, Sohn von Hermann
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 Carl_Gustav_Wrangel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nach Banérs Tod übernahm Wrangel (mit zwei weiteren Feldherrn) als Generalmajor zeitweilig den Heeresbefehl über die schwedischen Truppen, solange der neue Oberbefehlshaber, Torstenson, sich noch in Schweden aufhielt.
Hier befand er sich auf geschichtsträchtigem Boden, denn 1631 besiegte Gustav Adolf in der Schlacht bei Breitenfeld das kaiserliche Heer unter Tilly.
Der neu ernannte kaiserliche Feldherr Melander (später Graf von Holzappel) setzte Wrangel in Böhmen unangenehm zu.
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 WRANGEL, K. G. VON - LoveToKnow Article on WRANGEL, K. G. VON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
WRANGEL, K. VON - LoveToKnow Article on WRANGEL, K. in the tenser tissues.
The discoloration is caused by haemorrhage into the tissues (ecchymosis), and passes from dark purple through green to yellow before it disappears.
Commanding, ineffectively owing to his broken health, in the war against Brandenburg, he was recalled after his stepbrother Waldemar, Freiherr von Wrangel (16471676), had been defeated at Fehrbellin.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Swedes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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 from 1697 until his death in 1718.
Gustav II Adolf (also known as Gustaf Adolf den store or Gustavus II Adolpus) (December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632 O.S.), widely known by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus and referred to by Protestants as the Lion of the North, was King of Sweden from 1611 until his death.
Verner von Heidenstam (July 6, 1859 - May 20, 1940) was a Swedish poet and a laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916.
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 Wrangel
Fabian Graf von Wrangel († 1731) schwedischer Feldmarschall in kaiserlichen Gouverneur von Brüssel
Hermann von Wrangel (1585-1643) schwedischer Feldmarschall Generalgouverneur von Livland
Karl Gustav Wrangel (1603-1676) schwedischer Feldherr und Staatsmann Reichsmarschall Präsident des Kriegskollegiums Sohn von Hermann
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 Carl Gustav Wrangel - definition erklärung bedeutung glossar zu Carl Gustav Wrangel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Carl Gustav Wrangel Definitionen, Erklärungen sowie Bedeutungen zu Carl Gustav Wrangel
Vorher gab der Thronfolger Karl Gustav für alle, die an der Formulierung des Vertrages mitgewirkt hatten, ein Friedensbankett, auf dem Wrangel in freudiger Erregung seine Pistole gegen die Decke abfeuerte und feierlich verkündete, daß er nun keine Munition mehr brauche.
Wrangel wird entscheidend geschlagen und muß sich endgültig aus Brandenburg zurückziehen.
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 Wrangel, Karl Gustav - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wrangel, Karl Gustav   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Wrangel rose rapidly in the army, becoming a major-general of infantry by the age of 24.
He fought bravely at the battles of Wolfenbüttel (1641) and Leipzig (1642), and took command of the Swedish fleet against the Danes in 1644–45.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Carl Gustav Wrangel in offener Enzyklopädie   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Nach Baners Tod übernahm Wrangel (mit zwei weiteren Feldherrn) als Generalmajor zeitweilig den Heeresbefehl über die schwedischen Truppen, solange der neue Oberbefehlshaber, Torstenson, sich noch in Schweden aufhielt.
Das führte dazu, daß sich der französische Feldherr Turenne und der schwedische Oberkommandierende Wrangel trotz aller bis dahin unterschiedlicher Standpunkte zusammentaten und gemeinsam einen Angriff auf Süddeutschland starteten.
In den Jahren 1654/55 werden weite Teile Weißrußlands und Litauens von Moskauer Truppen und Kosaken besetzt.
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 Choose Karlshamn...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The King described his visit in a letter to Admiral Wrangel as follows, “Bodekull’s harbour is perfect for the transport of timber”.
King Carl X Gustav probably planned to use Karlshamn as a navy base, but in 1680 it was decided that Karlskrona was a better choice.
Karl Gustav’s church is believed to have been designed by the multi-talented Erik Dahlberg and pre-recorded guided tours are available.
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 Wrangel Island - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Wrangel Island   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A Russian naval officer, Baron Ferdinand von Wrangel, first postulated the island's existence in 1824, but failed to find it.
It was first sighted in 1867 by an American, Thomas Long, who named it after Wrangel.
After initial exploration in 1911, Russia claimed the island in 1924 and established a group of settlers, who forcibly evicted some Inuit settlers placed there by the USA the previous year pending a territorial claim.
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 SCHLACHT VON FEHRBELLIN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Durch den Fall von Rathenow war die schwedische Verteidigungslinie in Brandenburg nicht mehr zu halten.
Obwohl vom rein militärischen der Sieg Brandenburgs unter dem Kurfürsten Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg eher unbedeutend war, hatte er doch auf der psychologischen Ebene einige schwere Folgen.
Das Denkmal bei Hakenberg wird von der kleinen Goldelse geziert, einem Vorläufermodell der großen Goldelse auf der Berliner Siegessäule.
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 Women in power 1670-1700
Karl IV Leopold, she tried to fulfill the last wishes of her husband by putting all her energy into the return of Lorraine to her children.
The Suveräne Frau und Erbin von Vianden and Erbburggräfin von Uetrecht was daughter of Christian Albrecht (1621-77) and Sophie Theodore von Brederode, all of her five brothers and two sisters predeceased her.
After the death of her husband, Maximilian von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, she might have been the person who was regent for their son Prince and Count Meinrad II Karl Anton von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (1673-1715).
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 The first signs of human settlement in Virumaa
Karl Espenberg from Hõbeda was another well-known doctor and traveller.
Werner Zoege von Manteuffel who comes from Määri manor was the personal doctor of the Russian czar and the man who introduced rubber gloves in Russian medicine.
The painter Eduard von Gebhardt, professor of Düsseldorf Academy, whose works of art have been compared to the great masters of renaissence, has lived in Kullaaru.
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 Wolmar Wrangel -- Wolmar Wrangel af Lindeberg, född 1641, död 1675, friherre...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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Wolmar Wrangel af Lindeberg, född 1641, död 1675, friherre Wrangel af Lindeberg, militär.
Under Karl X Gustav:s danska krig var han ryttmästare, och blev under Karl XI:s förmyndarregering anställd hos den omyndige kungen, hos vilken han kom i stor gunst.
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 Hinrich Niewerth - Lutenist at the Royal Swedish Court
Gustav Düben the elder is one of the more prominent characters in the history of Swedish music.
Lorens von der Linde was born in Stockholm, studied at the Leyden University in 1627, made a military career and ended as field marshal, appointed in 1665.
As von der Linde he made a military career and in 1651 he was appointed count.
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 The Thirty Years War: The Peace of Westphalia
The Swedish forces under Wrangel besieged the city of Eger in northern Bohemia.
Wrangel fell back through Saxony and Hesse to the far side of the river Weser.
What was to be the last campaigning season of the war opened in March, 1648 with Turenne and Wrangel uniting their forces in Ansbach for an attack against Bavaria.
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 Chronology of Sweden (1640-1699)
Kristina, daughter of the late King Gustav Adolf, is proclaimed of age on her 18th birthday, and becomes ruling Queen of Sweden.
Queen Kristina proposes to the Riksdag that Karl Gustav be accepted as hereditary prince, and his male children succeed him.
Karl Gustav is declared new king, King Karl X Gustav.
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 Franz Mehring: Absolutism and Revolution in Germany (Part 5b)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Two of its members, an old General von Auerswald and the vain and boastful Junker von Lichnowsky, had so far forgotten their dignity as peoples’ representatives as to ride out, on September 18, on a reconnaissance of the insurgents, and while carrying out this patrol had been killed.
When Wrangel returned with the Guards from the Schleswig-Holstein marches to Mark Brandenburg, the counterrevolution was concentrating its forces for a decisive blow.
Orders of the day issued by General Wrangel as supreme commander in the Mark, and by Count Brandenburg as commanding General in Silesia, destroyed any doubt whether feudal absolutist reaction would allow well-meaning exhortations to force it to to abandon the bastion of support that the army was.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sweden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The first connected accounts of historical events were two chronicles in rhyme, the chronicle of Erik and that of Karl.
The first relates in doggerel the quarrels of the Folkunger family up to the year 1319 and gives, in particular, a vivid description of the actions of King Magnus Ladulås.
och svenska folket påhans tid (Stockholm, 1895); IDEM, Karl XII.
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 Wolf Song of Alaska: Wolves in War Ancient and Modern / 1600 to 1900
Christian of Brunswick, with an army composed mainly of ill-armed peasants, aimed to reach Hesse, enroll the Landgrave in the Protestant cause and attack the Hapsburg army.
This time the Swedish forces were commanded by Karl Gustav Wrangel, a good soldier but unpopular with his men.
A few years before, King Carl X Gustav of Sweden occupied Polish lands, and in January 1658 he launched an attack in bitterly cold weather across the ice of the Little Belt in an attempt to take Funen in Denmark.
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 Emissaries of Good Will -- Young Germans Participate in a Unique Project. By Ruth Rovner
Though it did include some prominent radicals, the assembly which elected Heinrich von Gagern as its presi ent on May 19 was dominated by law-and-order moderates committed to liberal reform, prepared to accept compromise, and to come to agreements with the ruling houses of Germany.
By September 7 the situation had become so tense that Hans Victor von Unruh, a liberal Prussian delegate, thought that "At this moment we are between a counter-revolution and a second revolution." Within weeks both revolutions had arrived, crushing the moderate center in their violent lash.
On November 10 General von Wrangel entered Berlin at the head of 40, 000 troops and sent the Landtag, the Prussian state parliament, packing.
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 Pyotr, Baron Wrangel --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Wrangel Island is part of the region of Arctic tundra,...
Wrangel Island off the Siberian coast was named in his honour.
His fresh and unconventional verse was a challenge to the long Romantic tradition and a forerunner of realism.
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