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Linköping, Battle of

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Linköping, Battle of

Swedish victory over the Poles in 1598, during the Swedish–Polish wars.

Sigismund III, king of Poland, succeeded his father as king of Sweden in 1592 and attempted to establish a Catholic ascendancy in Sweden, a policy vigorously opposed by the Lutheran Swedes who elected his uncle Charles as regent of Sweden in place of Sigismund's nominee in 1595. When Sigismund eventually set out for Sweden in 1598, his army was ambushed and totally destroyed by the Swedes. Charles became King Charles IX of Sweden in 1599 and the Polish hold over Sweden was broken.



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