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    Hakkapeliitta (Finnish pl. hakkapeliitat) is a historiographical term used for a Finnish light cavalryman in the service of King Gustavus Adolphus of...
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  • with its own permanent winter tyre testing facility. The company's Hakkapeliitta brand name is recognised in Finland as a trademark. Nokian Tyres concentrates...
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    Thirty Years' War (1618–1648) as a well-trained cavalrymen called "Hakkapeliitta". Finland suffered a severe famine in 1695–1697, during which about...
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    Åkesson Tott. Åke Henriksson Tott's tomb in the Cathedral of Turku Hakkapeliitta Nordisk familjebok, 2:a upplagan, Malmö Article Tott, Åke in Biografiskt...
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    Guard) Governor's Guards (United States) Guides Cavalry (Pakistan Army) Hakkapeliitta (Finnish cavalry of Thirty Years' War) Ironside King's Royal Hussars...
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    defense against weapons such as swords, spears, javelins, and arrows. Hakkapeliitta: Finnish light horsemen from the 16th to 18th century. They were armed...
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    be far more aggressive, often employing his Finnish light cavalry or Hakkapeliitta as shock troops. He also used columns on occasion, including the failed...
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    Munkkiniemi, Helsinki, ulkoperspektiivipiirustus, 1921. "26.11.1927 Hakkapeliitta no 48, s. 11". digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 13...
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    bicycle for the wet mud of south-east England that used 650Bx54 Nokia Hakkapeliitta snow tyres from Finland. Apps set up Cleland Cycles Ltd to manufacture...
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  • given in Finnish. The Finnish cavalry in the Swedish army was called Hakkapeliitta after their battle cry "Hakkaa päälle!". Approximately 110,000 soldiers...
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    Lieutenant Colonel Torsten Stålhandske's Hakkapeliitta's 4 companies with 350 men and Colonel Reinhold Wunsch's Hakkapeliitta's 4 companies with 350 men. The first...
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    linnoitukset. Saarijärvi: SKS, 2011. ISBN 978-952-222-275-6. "10.9.1927 Hakkapeliitta no 37, s. 9". digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-07-31...
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    bridge over to the island. On the morning of 15th, three hundred Finnish Hakkapeliitta troops crossed over to the Bavarian side of the river. Having done so...
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    Hakkapeliittain Marssi (Finnish for 'March of the Hakkapeliittas') or Finska Rytteriets Marsch (Swedish for 'March of the Finnish Cavalry') is a Finnish...
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    In early 2007, a Bentley Continental GT Speed equipped with Nokian Hakkapeliitta Sport Utility 5 studded winter tyres and driven by four-time World Rally...
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  • surujuhla: Sankarivainajien patsas noussut 15 v:n kuluttua verilöylystä". Hakkapeliitta (in Finnish) (5): 13. January 31, 1933. Kurkinen, Janne. "Suomi 1917-1918...
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    about 1540, or similar equipped, but usually more lightly armoured hakkapeliitta. Their main weapons were two or more pistols and a sword; initially...
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    Slang were killed, while General Stålhandske, commander of the Finnish Hakkapeliitta cavalry, was seriously wounded. Rather than a renewed offensive, Torstensson...
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  • bicycle that used large-diameter 28 × 1¾ (ISO 47-622), 47mm wide Nokian Hakkapeliitta snow tires from Finland, they were intrigued. In a letter to the December...
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    Westphalia would be signed a few days later, ending the 30-Years-War. Hakkapeliitta Pomerania during the Early Modern Age Swedish torch John George I abandoned...
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    1938 Suomen jääkärien elämäkerrasto 1975 "Puolangan Komennuskunta". Hakkapeliitta. pp. 21–25. AS 8.10.1943, ”Tanskan juutalaisselkkaus”(pääkirjoitus)...
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    League established in May 1929. Vuorimaa, who worked as a controlled for Hakkapeliitta magazine, was the "Helsinki strike force" leader in the summer of 1930...
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    captured Royal Navy boat on display in the world. "Halkokarin kahakka". Hakkapeliitta (in Finnish) (23). National library of Finland (published 1934-06-05):...
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    example, his writings in Aamulehti and Rintamamies-, Suomi-Saksa-, Hakkapeliitta- and Ajan Suunta-newspapers was openly anti-Bolshevist and national-socialist...
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    Favorites among ice-racers include Bridgestone Blizzaks and Nokian Hakkapeliittas. Ice racing includes a motorcycle class which is the equivalent of Speedway...
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    time. Among others, he explained the reputation of the Finns as being hakkapeliitta, brave soldiers, by deriving the term hakkaa päälle from a compound...
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  • square, by Veikko Leppänen, erected in 1959. Equestrian statue The Hakkapeliittas' homecoming, by Pentti Papinaho, erected in 1975. Lappeenranta Equestrian...
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  • Voima (1930 and 1935), Kansan Kuvalehti (1931-1935 and 1945-1954), Hakkapeliitta (1936-1944), Radiokuuntelija-Antenni (1955-1968), Käytännön Maamies...
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  • surujuhla: Sankarivainajien patsas noussut 15 v:n kuluttua verilöylystä". Hakkapeliitta (in Finnish) (5): 13. January 31, 1933. Kurkinen, Janne. "Suomi 1917-1918...
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  • into the town of Chemnitz but was mostly scattered and captured by the Hakkapeliitta under Torsten Stålhandske. In the end, the Swedes were able to rout...
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