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Article: Early modern military reform and the connection between Sweden and Brandenburg-Prussia.
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- Scandinavian Studies
- Article date:
- September 22, 2005
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IN A SHORT BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden written sometime after his death, the late king's chief minister and closest political confidant, Rikskansler Axel Oxenstierna, wrote of Gustav Adolf's natural inclination for military affairs. As a youth, Oxenstierna reported, Gustav Adolf had sought out the foreign officers present at his father's court and had grilled them regarding all aspects of their countries' military organization and affairs, ranging from battle order to military discipline to siegecraft to naval matters, questions with which, the chancellor wrote, the young prince could occupy himself for entire days on end. And as we know from the ...