Torstenson War
| Torstenson War | |||||||||
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| Part of Dano-Swedish Wars and Thirty Years' War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Swedish Empire | Denmark–Norway | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Christina Lennart Torstenson Gustav Horn Carl Gustaf Wrangel Helmut Wrangel Maerten Thijssen |
Christian IV Hannibal Sehested Anders Bille Ebbe Ulfeldt Jacob Ulfeld Matthias Gallas | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 24,600 | 32,000 | ||||||||
The Torstenson War, 1643 to 1645, was fought between Sweden and Denmark–Norway. The name derives from Swedish general Lennart Torstenson, and it is considered a related conflict of the Thirty Years' War.
Denmark–Norway had withdrawn from the Thirty Years' War in the 1629 Treaty of Lübeck. After its victories in the war, Sweden felt it had to attack Denmark–Norway due to its advantageous geographical position in relation to Sweden. Sweden invaded in a short two-year war. In the Second Treaty of Brömsebro (1645), which concluded the war, Denmark–Norway had to make huge territorial concessions and exempt Sweden from the Sound Dues, de facto acknowledging the end of the Danish-Norwegian, and the start of the Swedish, dominium maris baltici. Dano–Norwegian efforts to reverse this result in the Second Northern, Scanian and Great Northern wars failed.