Atlas of Battles

commander, 8 engagements

Battles of Gustaf Otto Stenbock

Battles of Gustaf Otto Stenbock

Swedish politician (1614-1685)

Gustaf Otto Stenbock is recorded as a commander at 8 placed engagements in the atlas between 1655 and 1678: 6 battles and 2 sieges across 3 present-day countries, most in Poland (3), Denmark (3), Sweden (2). Taken in date order, the sites lie 1,629 km apart end to end, 233 km between engagements on average. Most belong to Second Northern War (2), Deluge (2), Scanian War (1).

Capture of Warsaw (1657)Battle of KattarpSiege of Bohus FortressBattle of Nowy Dwór MazowieckiBattle of FilipówSiege Of CopenhagenAssault on CopenhagenBattle of NyborgBattle of Nowy Dwór MazowieckiBattle of FilipówSiege Of CopenhagenAssault on CopenhagenBattle of NyborgBerlinHamburgWarsawRigaGdańskKaliningradBrest200 km55.047N, 16.745E
8 placed engagements, coloured by era. Present-day coastlines; ringed marks are the most widely documented.

Engagements by year

1655: 1 engagements1656: 1 engagements1657: 2 engagements2 in 16571658: 1 engagements1659: 2 engagements2 in 16591678: 1 engagements16551678
8 dated engagements, one bar per year, coloured by era.

In time order

Battle of Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki, 1655Battle of Filipów, 1656Capture of Warsaw (1657), 1657Battle of Kattarp, 1657Siege Of Copenhagen, 1658Assault on Copenhagen, 1659Battle of Nyborg, 1659Siege of Bohus Fortress, 167816551678
One tick per dated engagement; each tick is a link.

Wars 3

Engagements by date

DateEngagementPlaceFrom the lastResult
1655Battle of Nowy Dwór MazowieckiNowy Dwór Mazowiecki, PolandSwedish victory
22 October 1656Battle of FilipówFilipów, Poland232 km NESwedish-Brandenburger victory
1657Capture of Warsaw (1657)Warsaw, Poland242 km SWTransylvanian, Swedish, Cossack, Moldavian and Wallachian...
1657Battle of KattarpKattarp, Sweden689 km NWDisputed, see result
February 1658Siege Of CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark53 km SDano-Dutch victory
11 February 1659Assault on CopenhagenCopenhagen, Denmark0 km WDano-Dutch victory
14 November 1659Battle of NyborgNyborg, Denmark116 km WAllied victory
4 June 1678Siege of Bohus FortressBohus Fortress, Sweden296 km NSwedish victory

Sources and method

Commanders come from the commander fields of the English Wikipedia infoboxes of these engagements (CC BY-SA 4.0), resolved to one article each; portrait, dates and description from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikimedia Commons, David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Distances are great-circle distances between recorded sites, not marches.