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This is a list of the 77 Field Marshals of Sweden, with their respective years of appointment, from the 16th to the 19th century.- Evert Horn ( 1614)
- Jesper Mattson Cruus af Edeby ( 1615)
- Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm ( 1616)
- Herman Wrangel ( 1621)
- Gustaf Horn ( 1628)
- Åke Henriksson Tott ( 1631Events February 5 Roger Williams emigrates to Boston. May 10 During the Thirty Years' War imperial troops storm the German city of Magdeburg and commit a massacre. About 20,000 inhabitants are killed. May 18 In Dorchester, Massachusetts, John Winthrop tak)
- Dodo KnyphausenBaron Dodo Knyphausen zu Innhausen und Knyphausen, ( 1583 1636) born in Ostfriesland, was a German soldier who entered into Swedish service in 1629 and was appointed Field Marshal in 1633. In the Thirty Years' War ( 1618- 1648), he commanded troops at the ( 1633Events February 13 Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition. March 1 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu. Galileo Galilei is forced to recant his heliocentric views.)
- Johan BanérJohan Baner ( June 23, 1596 May 10, 1641) was a Swedish soldier in the Thirty Years War. Baner was born at Djursholm Castle. Entering the Swedish army, he served with distinction in the wars with Russia and Poland, and had reached high rank when, in 1630, ( 1634Events Moses Amyraut's Traite de la predestination is published Curacao captured by the Dutch Treaty of Polianovska First meeting of the Academie francaise The witchcraft affair at Loudun Jean Nicolet lands at Green Bay, Wisconsin Opening of Covent Garden)
- Alexander Leslie ( 1636Events February 24 King Christian of Denmark gives an order that all beggars that are able to work must be sent to Brinholmen Island to build ships or as galley rowers March 26 Utrecht University founded in The Netherlands. September 8 A vote of the Great)
- Lennart TorstensonCount Lennart Torstenson ( August 17, 1603 April 7, 1651) was a Swedish soldier and the son of Torsten Lennartson, commandant of Alvsborg Fortress. He was born at Forstena in Westrogothia. At the age of fifteen he became one of the pages of the young King ( 1641)
- Carl Gustaf Wrangel ( 1646)
- Lars Kagg ( 1648)
- Gustaf Adolf Lewenhaupt ( 1655)
- Hans Christoff von Königsmarck ( 1655)
- Arvid Wittenberg ( 1655)
- Gustaf Otto Stenbock ( 1656)
- Axel Lillie ( 1657)
- Robert Douglas ( 1657)
- Gustaf Banér ( 1663)
- Henrik Horn ( 1665)
- Clas Åkesson Tott, junior ( 1665)
- Christoff Delphicus zu Dohna ( 1666)
- Simon Grundel-Helmfelt ( 1668)
- Fabian von Fersen ( 1675)
- Axel Julius De la Gardie ( 1675)
- Conrad Mardefelt ( 1675)
- Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck ( 1676)
- Rutger von Ascheberg ( 1678)
- Nils Bielke ( 1690)
- Jacob Johan Hastfer ( 1690)
- Erik Dahlbergh ( 1693)
- Axel Wachtmeister ( 1693)
- Otto Wilhelm von Fersen ( 1693)
- Jurgen Mellin ( 1696)
- Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld ( 1706)
- Nils Gyllenstierna af Fogelvik ( 1709)
- Magnus Stenbock ( 1713)
- Carl Mörner af Morlanda ( 1717)
- Carl Gustaf Dücker ( 1719)
- Erik Sparre af Sundby ( 1719)
- Gustaf Adam Taube ( 1719)
- Berndt Otto Stackelberg, senior ( 1727)
- Göran Silfverhielm ( 1734)
- Hugo Johan Hamilton ( 1734)
- Johan Christoffer von Düring ( 1751)
- Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg ( 1753)
- Carl Henrik Wrangel ( 1754)
- Georg Bogislaus Staël von Holstein ( 1757)
- Gotthard Vilhelm Marks von Würtemberg ( 1763)
- Axel von Fersen, senior ( 1770)
- Augustin Ehrensvärd ( 1772)
- Samuel Gustaf Stierneld ( 1772)
- Fredrik Vilhelm von Hessenstein ( 1773)
- Berndt Otto Stackelberg, junior ( 1778)
- Johan August Meijerfeldt, junior ( 1790)
- Johan Kristoffer Toll ( 1807)
- Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor ( 1808)
- Curt von Stedingk ( 1811)
- Hans Henric von Essen ( 1811)
- Carl Carlsson Mörner af Tuna ( 1816)
- Fabian Wrede ( 1816)
- Johan August Sandels ( 1824)
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