GALLAS, MATTHIAS, GRAF VON

mätēˈäs gräf fən gälˈäs, 1584–1647, imperial general in the Thirty Years War. He served under Tilly, commander of the Catholic League, in Germany until 1629, and then entered Italy, helping to take Mantua (1630). He served as field marshal under Wallenstein, chief of the imperial forces, but later participated in the conspiracy that brought about Wallenstein's removal by Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and his subsequent assassination (1634). Gallas succeeded to a large part of Wallenstein's duchy of Friedland and to the actual command of the armies (nominally under the emperor's son). At Nördlingen (1634) he defeated the Swedes and Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar. After 1635 his drunkenness and total incompetence caused him several times to lose his command, but he regained it each time through influence at court.

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Doctor's Orders: Goethe and Enlightenment Thought
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...alk. paper) 1. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. 2. Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832-Knowledge-Medicine. 3. Medicine...im Auftrage der Groj3her- zogin Sophie von Sachsen, 143 vols. (1887-1919; reprint...
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Leftism Revisited: From de Sade and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot
Book by Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn; Regnery Gateway, 1990
Subjects: Conservatism--History, Democracy--History, Liberalism--History, Political Science--History
...and Marx to Hitler and Pol Pot Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Preface by William F...GATEWAY Washington, D.C. Text 1990 by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Introduction 1990 by...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kuehnelt-Leddihn, Erik von, 1909 Leftism Revisited : from de Sade...
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Peacemaking in Early Modern Europe: Cardinal Mazarin and the Congress of Westphalia, 1643-1648
Book by Derek Croxton; Susquehanna University Press, 1999
Subjects: Alsace (France)--History, France--Foreign Relations--Germany, Germany--Foreign Relations--France, Mazarin, Jules--1602-1661, Peace Of Westphalia (1648)
...were likely to suffer starvation, disease, and desertion that would reduce their numbers rapidly This was the cause of Gallass 1644 disaster, and of the dramatic depletion of Leopold Wilhelms forces in 1646. 42 At Freiburg, Mercy reported that his...
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Richelieu's Army: War, Government, and Society in France, 1624-1642
Book by David Parrott; Cambridge University Press, 2001
Subjects: France--Armaee--History--17th Century, France--History, Military--1610-1643, France--History--Louis Xiii, 1610-1643, Richelieu, Armand Jean Du Plessis--Duc De--1585-1642
...n. 44, quoting from L. Plathner, Graf Johann von Nassau und die erste Kriegschule...flood of publications by Johann Jacobi von Wallhausen, briefly director of the...amongst reform-minded rulers. Johann von Nassaus initiatives were first copied...
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The Military Revolution Debate: Readings on the Military Transformation of Early Modern Europe
Book by Clifford J. Rogers; Westview Press, 1995
Subjects: Europe--History, Military--1492-1648, Europe--History--1517-1648
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GALLAS, MATTHIAS, GRAF VON mate as graf f n gal as, 1584 1647, imperial general in the Thirty Years War...Roman Emperor Ferdinand II and his subsequent assassination (1634). Gallas succeeded to a large part of Wallensteins duchy of Friedland and...


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