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EncyclopediaBreitenfeldBreitenfeld (brī'tunfelt") [key], village, Saxony, S central E Germany. It gave its name to two battles of the Thirty Years War. Gustavus Adolphus (Gustavus II) of Sweden there defeated the imperial forces under Count Johannes Tilly and Marshal Gottfried Pappenheim in 1631, and the Swedes under General Lennart Torstensson there routed the imperial troops under Archduke Leopold William in 1642. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on Breitenfeld from Infoplease:
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