Tortsenson storms the Danube Bridge near Vienna 1645 AD WOODCUT from 1862

Description: Tortsenson storms the Danube bridge near Vienna in 1645 AD. Original wood engraving from 1862 (not a reprint) Sheet size approx. 26.5 x 20 cm, unprinted on the back. Condition: good - see scan! If you have any questions, please send a mail.Please also note my other offers! Here are more motifs about German history!I offer many more color prints, wood engravings, steel engravings and lithographs - please use the SHOP search. Shipping costs are only charged once if you purchase multiple items! Documentation: Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala (from 1647) (* 17. August 1603 at Forstena Estate, Vänersborg Municipality; † 7. April 1651 in Stockholm) was a Swedish general and later Governor General of Västergötland, Dalsland, Värmland and Halland. He reformed the use of artillery by mobilizing it as field artillery to a previously unknown extent. Torstensson achieved important victories in the Thirty Years' War and in Sweden's war against Denmark (1643–45), which is called the Torstensson War after him. His time in command marked one of the most successful chapters in the military history of the Swedish Army. Lennart Torstensson (he wrote himself Linnardt Torstenson) was the son of the commander of Älvsborg Fortress, Torsten Lennartsson. At the age of 15 he became a page for King Gustav II. Adolf of Sweden and later served in the king's Prussian campaigns in 1628 and 1629. Appointed lieutenant colonel in 1628, a year later he took command of the Swedish artillery, which under his leadership (since 1630 with the rank of colonel) was instrumental in the victories at Breitenfeld (1631) and in the Battle of Rain am Lech (1632). contributed, and was promoted to general in 1632. In the same year he was taken prisoner at the Alte Veste and was imprisoned in Ingolstadt for almost a year. Under Banér he performed important service in the Battle of Wittstock (1636) and during the defense of Pomerania in 1637–38, as well as in the Battle of Chemnitz (1639) and the invasion of Bohemia in 1639. An illness forced him to briefly return to Sweden in 1641, where he was appointed Imperial Councilor. After Banér's unexpected death in May 1641, Torstensson was appointed Swedish Imperial Councilor and Governor General of Swedish Pomerania. After being appointed field marshal and generalissimo of the Swedish troops, he returned to Germany and, to the surprise of his opponents, immediately began a new campaign towards Silesia at the beginning of 1642. The Swedish army under Torstensson marched through Brandenburg, conquered Glogau and defeated a newly formed Imperial Saxon army under Franz Albrecht of Saxe-Lauenburg near Schweidnitz, which wanted to relieve the besieged place. After the victory, the Swedish army marched further into Moravia and captured the important fortress of Olomouc. On the march back through Saxony it happened on the 23rd. October 1642 to meet with the imperial army under Archduke Leopold, which was reinforced by Saxon troops. In this second battle near Breitenfeld, the Imperial Saxon troops suffered heavy losses in terms of dead and prisoners. In addition, all the baggage, the war chest and the artillery were lost. In 1643 Torstensson invaded Moravia again, but was unexpectedly ordered back north at the end of the year in order to invade Denmark via Holstein in December. This rapid and unexpected intervention in the so-called Torstensson's War paralyzed the Danish defenses on land, although Torstensson's position in Jutland was strengthened by Christian IV's skillful leadership of the Danish fleet. was very endangered for a short time. In addition, the Swedish army withdrawing to Denmark was followed by an imperial army under Matthias Gallas, which was supposed to support Denmark in the fight against Sweden and which reached Kiel in August 1644. In order to escape this army and at the same time regain the initiative, Torstensson planned a sophisticated maneuver to quickly march the Swedish army back south into the areas in central Germany that were largely denuded of imperial troops. In Holstein, the Swedish army bypassed the opposing imperial army unnoticed on a secret route (Stapelholmer Weg) and thereby gained a head start on the way south. After the sudden withdrawal of the Swedish army, Gallas and the imperial army were forced to follow the Swedish army up the Elbe in order to protect the areas in central Germany that had been denuded of imperial troops. Gallas moved into a camp near Bernburg in order to be able to cover Swedish attacks on Saxony or Franconia. However, Torstensson blocked the supply routes for the imperial army overland or along the Elbe. Less due to the many small skirmishes in the area of Aschersleben and Bernburg than due to the poor supply situation, the imperial army collapsed due to hunger, illness and desertion. When Gallas ordered a breakout from Bernburg to Magdeburg and sent the cavalry from there on to Bohemia, Torstensson was able to defeat them in the Battle of Jüterbog in Brandenburg on the 23rd. November and defeated parts of Gallas' infantry in another battle near Frohse near Magdeburg. After these battles were completed, only 3,000 of the imperial army, which originally numbered up to 18,000 men, remained. At the beginning of 1645 it collapsed Torstensson invaded Bohemia with his army and achieved a brilliant victory in the Battle of Jankau (6. March 1645). He succeeded in devastatingly defeating the allied imperial and Bavarian troops in tactically skilful individual battles. Johann von Götzen was killed by the imperial commanders, while Melchior von Hatzfeldt was captured. After this victory, the way was clear for the Swedish army to Vienna, where Emperor Ferdinand had fled from Prague. Torstensson's intention was to unite there with the rebellious Hungarian troops of George I Rákóczi, who were already threatening Pressburg. When he marched on the imperial residence, Torstensson left a trail of destruction through Lower Austria; e.g. B. Staatz Castle and the Gaunersdorf market were sacked and completely destroyed. At the beginning of April he stood in front of the Danube bridge in Vienna, but his exhausted army was no longer able to advance any further and was stopped by Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in Brigittenau. Torstensson then turned to Brno to force the Moravian fortress behind him to surrender. At the beginning of May he surrounded the city with the Spielberg fortress above it and in June united with the Hungarians under Rákóczi. However, under the imperial commander Jean-Louis Raduit de Souches, Brno defended itself so stubbornly that Sweden and Hungary, after suffering heavy losses, withdrew at the end of August and gave up the siege. Torstensson, crippled by gout, was forced to resign his command and return to Sweden in December. Before that, however, he negotiated until the 27th. Augustjuly. / 6. September 1645greg. the armistice of Kötzschenbroda, with which the Saxons withdrew from the Thirty Years' War. In 1647 he was made a count. From 1648 to 1651 he administered the western provinces of Sweden as governor general. After his death he was buried in the Riddarholmskyrkan, the Swedish Pantheon.Source: WikipediaIf the combined shipping via eBay does not work, I will of course refund the overpaid shipping costs! Lennart Torstensson, Count of Ortala (from 1647) (* 17. August 1603 at Forstena Estate, Vänersborg Municipality; † 7. April 1651 in Stockholm) was a Swedish general and later Governor General of Västergötland, Dalsland, Värmland and Halland. He reformed the use of artillery by mobilizing it as field artillery to a previously unknown extent. Torstensson achieved important victories in the Thirty Years' War and in Sweden's war against Denmark (1643–45), which is called the Torstensson War after him. His time in command marked one of the most successful chapters in the military history of the Swedish Army. Lennart Torstensson (he wrote himself Linnardt Torstenson) was the son of the commander of Älvsborg Fortress, Torsten Lennartsson. At the age of 15 he became a page for King Gustav II. Ado

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