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Last King In Battle?

An-DAn-D EnthusiastAshevilleRegistered User regular
edited January 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm doing a bit of writing now and I'm completely going crazy at this one point of information that I want to use. I'm researching and researching to no real avail, so I ask my question to the trivia-friendly (hopefully...) forumers of PA:

Who was the last king to ride into battle with his troops/army?



I'm 95% sure it was a Swedish king, but thats where my mind kind of drops off. Any help with this would be tremendous!

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  • Red LegRed Leg Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    1- You're probably going to school at Western, nothing there is worth going crazy about.

    2- If you are talking about led into battle as in, rode in on a horse, gave the Braveheart speech, and the went in and fought, you're probably not going to see that after the Middle Ages, but I would lean towards King Ferdinand of Romania who personally led troops in World War I.

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  • An-DAn-D Enthusiast AshevilleRegistered User regular
    edited January 2008
    1 - *Thats* who it was, I don't know where Sweden came from. Awesomesauce, you're my new hero.

    2- And its not *that* bad out here...once you get over the bears and meth'd up Cherokees anyway...

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  • GrizzledGrizzled Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Perhaps you were thinking Sweden due to Gustavus Adolphus, the king of Sweden, who was also a famous general and led his army from the front until getting himself killed in a cavalry charge at the Battle of Lutzen in 1633. The wikipedia article is full of useful details.

    I would have guessed this was the last king to lead troops in battle, I didn't know about the King of Romania in WWI. But I might argue that he was the last king to lead his troops really effectively, since Sweden was pretty much winning the Thirty Year's War until he got killed.

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