Swedish Wars on Bremen
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Were two wars fought between the Swedish Empire and the Hanseatic town of Bremen in 1654 and 1666. Bremen claimed to be subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining Imperial immediacy, while Sweden claimed Bremen to be a mediatised part of her dominions of Bremen-Verden.
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Was the first of two wars fought between the Swedish Empire and the Hanseatic town of Bremen in 1654 and 1666. Bremen claimed to be subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining Imperial immediacy, while Sweden claimed Bremen to be a mediatised part of her dominions of Bremen-Verden.
July 1654: In the meantime, Königsmarck had gathered 1,700 men under Carl Gustav Wrangel near Verden in order to intercept the retreating Bremen troops. News of the rapidly advancing Swedish contingent reached the people of Bremen, but their retreat was delayed because the soldiers on foot did not want to leave their booty behind.
May 1654: In 1654, Swedish riders, led by Field Marshal Carl Gustaf Wrangel, invaded the Bremen area.
May 1654: Bremen claimed to be subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining Imperial immediacy, while Sweden claimed Bremen to be a mediatized part of her dominions of Bremen-Verden. In early May 1654, the Swedes attacked the Bremen exclave of Bederkesa. The small garrison of only 40 men stationed in the castle there had to capitulate on May 8th.
July 1654: In July 1654, the people of Bremen, led by Gerhard vor dem Keller, captured Verden with 600 men, three cavalry companies, and two guns.
June 1654: In 1654, Swedish riders invaded the Bremen area during the Thirty Years' War. They engaged in a skirmish at the Steinturm am Dobben, which was part of the upstream Landwehr defenses in the east of the city.
July 1654: In mid-July, a Bremen contingent of around 1,000 men sailed down the Weser in ships, invaded the Land of Wursten and forced the residents there to contribute.
November 1654: The First Stader Settlement is an agreement between the Kingdom of Sweden and the city of Bremen that ended the First Bremen-Swedish War on November 28, 1654. Parish Lehe and the rule (office) Bederkesa remained in Sweden. Blumenthal and Vegesack remained in Bremen.
June 1654: The Bremeners recaptured Vegesack and took 83 prisoners there.
Was the second of two wars fought between the Swedish Empire and the Hanseatic town of Bremen in 1654 and 1666. Bremen claimed to be subject to the Holy Roman Emperor, maintaining Imperial immediacy, while Sweden claimed Bremen to be a mediatised part of her dominions of Bremen-Verden.
September 1666: In January 1666, Carl Gustaf Wrangel departed from Swedish Pomerania to command the Swedish army, which in early 1666 numbered 14,000 troops. By summer, all of the city of Bremen's territory was occupied, except the city itself.
November 1666: On 14 November, the Peace of Habenhausen was signed. Bremen further had to cede its territories north of the city and at the lower Weser river. However, the city itself with a number of villages around, maintained its independence. […] The compromise stipulated that Bremen waived imperial immediacy until the end of the 17th century and could not take part in imperial diets. Of course, this was of no real importance to the city. This peace treaty put a heavy damper on Swedish military policy, and it was generally taken as a victory for Bremen.
