The Campaigns of Gustavus Adolfus Part II: The Battle of Breitenfeld 

+Daniel S. Thank you! I'm a bit consumed with uni work at the moment but once my deadline is passed I hope to get back into it :)

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Björn Ladholm Yeah, that's a bit of a mistake. He was a veteran of over a dozen battles and over 55 years of service. That's about as far from inexperienced as you can get... Still a good video though.

Yes.

Only the cavalry was mostly Finnish. What Finnish regiments was in his army? He kept 40k soldiers in Sweden most of them in Finland to scare of Russia and Poland from starting a new war. Since all regiments where all from different provinces in Sweden it's easy to see if they where from Finland or Sweden. I know they had at least 500 Finnish infantry that where a kind of elite among the infantry together with Scottish men that he used for special tasks when attacking fortresses or smaller engagement.

Finnish cavalary was indeed a contribute to the Swedish army of this time. But at the same time Finland was Sweden during this time. However, Sweden and Finland still have strong connections and a relation of brotherly love.

"Brotherly love." Why the fuck should I feel love for a nation that constantly erases out of history and makes our achievements their achievements? A country that first conquered us with the flimsy excuse of "spreading christianity" and then proceeded to erase all pre-swedish history.

@@finnicpatriot6399 What are Sweden erasing? And what achievements are Sweden claiming as theirs? Write these things and then prepare to get your mongol face smashed with facts.

Bödvar Bödvar 1. The demolishing of Kuusisto Castle lead to the loss of most primary sources on pre-swedish history of finland and the lineages of finnish noble families and chieftains. 2. Numerous figures like Juho Maununpoika, Antti Niilonpoika, Evert Horn, Klaus Fleming, Akseli Kurki, Iivar Särkilahti etc are called ”swedish” by swedish historians based only on their nationality, rather than their ethnic finnish background. They also tend to ignore the fact that they all spoke Finnish as their mother tongue. 3. The swedish-controlled Finnish Heritage Agency (almost every single chairman has been swedish) has closed off numerous archeological sites from investigation and kept them so. Even sites that are nearly collapsing, like Kuninkaanhauta, still have no plans to have them excavated. Pappilanmäki, the most notable iron age cemetery in Finland where the ancient upper class of Finland has been found has still not been fully excavated. The main grave in that area, ”king’s grave” which is situated next to the graves of his bodyguards, has not been excavated for 80 years: ever since the agency was taken over by ethnic swedes. 4. Charles IX purged the Finnish nobility and replaced it with ethnic swedes and baltic germans. A new culture of swedish assimilation was put into function, which saw the Finnish nobility become unilingually Swedish over the 17th and 18th centuries. 5. Johan Ihre begins a tradition of historical denial. Before him, Swedish history generally accepted the fact that Finland had consisted of tribal kingdoms with their own rulers and societal organization. He denies the sagas as sources for finnish kings, yet he completely accepts the historicity of SWEDISH kings present in the sagas. Historians after him would follow suit. 6. Swedish historians claimed for a long time (and some still do) that the Kvens were a scandinavian people, rather than a Finnic one. 7. Swedish historians and officials still support the myths of the first and second crusades into finland, for which no material evidence or sources have been provided. Funny of you to call me a mongol, considering that we have more genes from the original aryans than swedes do.