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    Field Marshal and Count Jacob Pontusson De la Gardie (Reval, 20 June 1583 – Stockholm, 22 August 1652) was a statesman and a soldier of the Swedish Empire...
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    Swedish dominion where Magnus Gabriel's father Jacob De la Gardie served as governor. Jacob De la Gardie, Count of Läckö, was a prominent military commander...
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    auxiliary corps commanded by Jacob De la Gardie and Evert Horn to support Russian forces under Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky. The De la Gardie campaign was successful...
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  • soldier Jacob De la Gardie (1583–1652), statesman and soldier Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1622–1686), statesman Axel Julius De la Gardie (1637–1710)...
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    John De la Gardie. Pontus De la Gardie's second son, Jacob De la Gardie, was given the title count of Läckö in 1615; his grandson Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie...
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    Baron Pontus De la Gardie (c. 1520 – 5 November 1585) was a French nobleman and general in the service of Denmark and Sweden. He was born Ponce d'Escouperie...
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    from 1687 to 1704. Axel Julius was the son of military commander Jacob De la Gardie and Ebba Brahe. He became colonel of an infantry regiment and the...
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    Jacob De la Gardie in the presence of the two queen dowagers and the brother of the king in Stockholm. On 24 June 1618 she married Count Jacob De la Gardie...
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    was originally called Jakobsdal for its owner Jacob De la Gardie, who had it built by architect Hans Jacob Kristler in 1638–1645 as a country retreat. He...
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  • stationed their troops in the castle. In response the Swedish general Jacob De la Gardie gathered his force to once again capture the town for the Swedes....
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    century. In the early 17th century the cavalry led by the Field Marshal Jacob De la Gardie participated in campaigns against Poland and Russia. The Hakkapeliitta...
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    Radziejowski, chamberlain Christoph Delphicus zu Dohna, Jacob De la Gardie, Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie and Clas Tott (1630–1674). The Order was also awarded...
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    Jakobstad (redirect from Jacob's Town)
    languages. The Swedish name literally means Jacob's City or Jacob's Town, in reference to Jacob De la Gardie. The town was founded at the old harbour of...
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    Sweden. Maria Sofia De la Gardie was born to count Jacob De la Gardie and Ebba Brahe. She was the sister of Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie, the favorite of...
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    noble family de la Gardie, and can be seen in the second and third fields of the coat of arms depicted in a painting of Jacob de la Gardie by an unknown...
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    city (present-day Valmiera) defended by about 1,000 infantry under Jacob De la Gardie and Carl Carlsson Gyllenhielm. Other notable commanders on the Polish...
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    support against False Dmitry II and the Poles. The Swedish commander Jacob de la Gardie joined his forces with the Russian commander Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky...
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    during the Ingrian war of 1610–1617: one Swedish source indicates that Jacob de la Gardie has been present at thing in Novgorod. Some of the more recent scholars...
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    which Vasily Shuisky was overthrown, and the Poles occupied Moscow. Jacob De la Gardie considered that Russia had not fulfilled its obligations to Sweden...
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    mercenary units temporarily allied to Russia, under the command of Jacob De la Gardie, composed of Flemish, French, Irish, German, Spanish, English, and...
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    During the Ingrian War Kurck served as a captain under the command of Jacob De la Gardie. Kurck spent his last years at the Anola estate in Nakkila, Sweden...
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    the Russian-Swedish army led by Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky and Jacob De la Gardie and the army of Polish–Lithuanian invaders who fought for False Dmitry...
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  • The title meant no particular assignment until 1630, when constable Jacob De la Gardie became president of the Council of War (Swedish: first Krigsrätten...
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    time, a strong Russo-Swedish army under Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky and Jacob De la Gardie approached Tushino, forcing him to flee his camp disguised as a peasant...
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    Union in Sweden. The De la Gardie Campaign refers to the actions of a 15,000-strong military unit commanded by Jacob De la Gardie in alliance with the...
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  • Jacob De la Gardie (1622–1628) Johan Skytte (1629–1634) Bengt Oxenstierna (1634–1643) Herman Wrangel (1643) Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie (1655–) Jacob...
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    Several Swedish monarchs also acted directly as military commanders. Jacob de la Gardie (1583–1652), Field Marshal Gustav Horn (1592–1657), Field Marshal...
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    ruled by appointed governors-general, but retained its own diet. Jacob De la Gardie (1622–1628) Gustaf Horn (1628–1629) Johan Skytte (1629–1633) Nils...
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    1610. A coalition between Swedish general Jacob de la Gardie and Russian princes launched the De la Gardie Campaign, effectively defeating False Dmitry...
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    Skopin-Shuisky, who commanded an army aided by an allied Swedish force led by Jacob de la Gardie, allowed Shuisky, for a time, to remain on his unstable throne. In...
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