Polish-Swedish War (1626-29)
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Was a war between the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden.
Chronology
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February 1629: The Polish forces were badly defeated at the Battle of Górzno, where a Swedish force under Field Marshal Herman Wrangel encountered a Polish army under Stanisław Potocki.
September 1626: Battle of Selburg.
May 1627: The area west of the Vistula was completely free of Swedish troops.
July 1627: Koniecpolski forced the Swedish garrison in Gniew to surrender.
September 1628: Gustaw Adolf led a military occupation of Brodnica, a town in Poland. This move was part of Sweden's involvement in the Thirty Years' War, a conflict that engulfed much of Europe at the time.
April 1627: Hetman Koniecpolski recaptured the town of Puck.
January 1629: Swedish forces captured the towns of Nowy and Brodnica.
Swedish invasion of Prussia during the Polish-Swedish War (1626-1629).
July 1626: 7,000 Swedish soldiers landed in Piława .
July 1626: The cities of Frombork and Elbląg were occupied by Swedish forces.
July 1626: Orneta conquered by sweden.
July 1626: Malbork, a fortress in Poland, was taken by Swedish forces on July 18, 1626 after only two days of siege.
September 1626: The head fortress of Wisła Elbląska and Leniwka was seized by the Swedes under the command of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden.
January 1627: King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden led his troops across the Vistula River and captured the towns of Tczew, Gniew, and Starogard (in Poland).
January 1627: Swedish forces led by King Gustavus Adolphus captured the towns of Oliwa and Puck in Poland.
Was the treaty that ended the Polish-Swedish War (1626-1629).
September 1629: The truce of Altmark in 1629 allowed Sweden, under the rule of King Gustavus Adolphus, to retain control of Livonia, including Riga.
September 1629: In 1629, during the Thirty Years' War, the Coastal Stripe of Prussia was ceded to the Kingdom of Sweden. This territory included the cities of Elbing, Memel, Fischhausen, Braunsberg, and Frauenburg.
September 1629: After the Truce of Altmark, Sweden returned all the regions it had occupied in Prussia.
September 1629: The Commonwealth retained southeastern parts of the Wenden Voivodeship, renamed to Inflanty Voivodeship.
Was a treaty where Sweden returned territories of Brandenburg-Prussia and Poland-Lithuania that were invaded in the previous years.
September 1635: The Swedes had to return to the commonwealth the territories they occupied in Baltic Prussia: ports of Elbing, Memel and Pillau, the latter two returning to George William, Elector of Brandenburg and withdraw their garrisons from them
Selected Sources
Frost, R. I. (2000): The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe 1558-1721, London (UK), p. 110-111
