!!!Torstensson, Lennart

b. Torstena (Sweden), Aug. 17, 1603, 
d. Stockholm (Sweden), April 7, 1651, Swedish general. 1641 took over 
the supreme command of the Swedish troops in the  Thirty Years' War 
and won the battle of Jankau (now in Czech Republic) on March 6, 1645. 
On March 17 he crossed the border to Lower Austria, conquered Krems, 
Stein and Korneuburg and on April 14 reached the bridge over the 
Danube at Vienna. The Swedish troops remained in Lower Austria until 
August 1646.

!Literature
K. Gutkas, NOe. im 30 jaehrigen Krieg, 1987.



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