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WRANGEL, KARL GUSTAV VON (1613-1676)

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 839 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: WIL-YAK
WRANGEL, KARL GUSTAV VON (1613-1676) , Swedish soldier, was descended from a family of Esthonian origin, branches
of which settled in Sweden, Russia and Germany. His father, Hermann von Wrangel (1587-1643), was a Swedish field
marshal
  in Gustavus
Adolphus
 's wars. Karl Gustav was born near
Upsala
  on the 23rd of December 1613, and at the age of twenty distinguished himself as a cavalry captain in the war against the Army of the League. Three years later he was colonel, and in 1638 major-general, still serving in Germany. In 1644 he commanded a
fleet
  at sea, which defeated the Danes at Fehmarn on the 23rd of October. In 1646 he returned to Germany as a field
marshal
  and succeeded Torstensson as
commander
 -in-
chief
  of the Swedish army in Germany, which post he held during the last three campaigns of the Thirty Years' War. Under Wrangel and
Turenne
  the allied Swedish and French armies marched and fought in Bavaria and Wurttemberg. At the outbreak of a fresh Polish war in 1655 Wrangel commanded a
fleet
 , but in 1656 he was serving on land again and commanding, along with the
Great
  Elector of Brandenburg, in the three days' battle of Warsaw. In 16J7 he invaded Jutland and in 1658 passed over the ice into the islands and took Kronborg. In 1657 he was appointed
admiral
  and in 1664 general of the
realm
 , and as such he was a member of the regency during the minority of Charles XI. But his last campaign was unfortunate. Commanding, ineffectively owing to his broken health, in the war against Brandenburg, he was recalled after his stepbrother Waldemar, Freiherr von Wrangel (1647-1676), had been defeated at Fehrbellin. He died at Riigen shortly afterwards, on the 5th of July 1676.


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