The Siege of Bohus fortress (Swedish: Belägringen av Bohus fästning) occurred in 1676 during the early stages of the Scanian War when Norwegian general...
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Bohus Fortress lies in Kungälv, Bohuslän, Sweden, north east from Hisingen where the Göta river splits into two branches (20 km (12 mi) north of Gothenburg)...
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Fredriksten (redirect from Fredriksten Fortress)
fortress at Bohus, which had been lost when the province of Bohuslän was ceded to Sweden by the terms of the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. The fortress...
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Bohuslän. As governor, he participated in the Dano–Norwegian siege of Bohus Fortress in 1676. Carlquist, Gunnar; Carlsson, Josef, eds. (1947–1955). Svensk...
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Scanian War (redirect from Invasion of Scania)
forces moved to Bohus where they were supplemented by General Tønne Huitfeldt's army of 5000 men. Gyldenløve subsequently besieged the fortress, but was forced...
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Christen Nielsen Holberg (category People of the Scanian War)
for the regiment before joining it in Sweden in 1676 where he participated in the siege of Bohus Fortress. Upon returning to Norway later that year he was...
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Jobst von Scholten (category Dutch military personnel of the War of the Spanish Succession)
successful sieges by the forces of the Austrian Wallenstein in 1627 and the Swedish Torstensson in 1643, as well as two sieges where the fortress had held...
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New Älvsborg (category History of Gothenburg)
not ideal, as it lay upstream of the Danish-Norwegian fortress at Bohus, on the north bank of the river; thus in times of war the garrison there could...
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Carl Gustaf Frölich (category Governors-general of Sweden)
Lieutenant-Major of the Swedish Army and Commander in Bohus Fortress in 1676. In 1678 he became Lieutenant-Colonel. In the summer of 1678 Bohus fortress was besieged...
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Battle of Rheinfelden 6 July – France defeats the Holy Roman Empire. Siege of Bohus Fortress 4 June – 21 July – Sweden captures Bohus Fortress from Denmark-Norway...
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Northern Seven Years' War (redirect from Capture of Älvsborg)
ensured the command of the eastern Baltic by the Swedes that year. In January 1566 Sweden unsuccessfully laid siege to Bohus Fortress in Bohuslän (then...
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This is a page about the chronological history of Denmark, starting with the Stone Age and ending with present Denmark. Belagerung von Stade (1712) [de]...
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Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld (category Members of the Privy Council of Sweden)
art of war. In the last two years of the war, Rehnskiöld served on the Norwegian front in Bohuslän and participated in the relief of Bohus Fortress, where...
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Women in warfare (1500–1699) (redirect from History of Women in Early Modern Warfare)
the city of Stockholm for the Danish during a Swedish rebellion against the Danish. 1502: Anne Rud defends the Bohus Fortress in the absence of her spouse...
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1678 in Sweden (category Years of the 17th century in Sweden)
year 1678 in Sweden Monarch – Charles XI 18 January - Battle of Warksow Siege of Bohus Fortress. Medevi is founded. Swedish Pomerania is occupied by Brandenburg...
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