Qualla: Battle of Nauen https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen en-us © 2026 Bendyline Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:49:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/5/battle-of-nauen-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Nauen https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen Battle of Nauen: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen/ Photo credit Maximilian Schäfer, Public domain. The Swedish gunners saw the horsemen coming across the causeway and did something soldiers almost never do: they tipped their own cannon into the lake. They had a good position — the marshy ground west of Nauen could only be crossed on one narrow bank, and they had thrown up fieldworks and sited guns to cover it. They abandoned all of it without firing. Behind them, a thousand-odd Brandenburg troopers had ridden through the night at a gallop to get there. It was 17 June 1675, the day before the Battle of Fehrbellin, and what happened around this small Havelland market town is the part of the story that usually gets one sentence.

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/5/battle-of-nauen-wp/u335-battle-of-nauen-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Nauen: The Undefended Country https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen/ Photo credit Maximilian Schäfer, Public domain. In December 1674 a Swedish army came south out of Swedish Pomerania into the March of Brandenburg and found almost nothing in its way. The Elector's soldiers were hundreds of kilometres off in Franconia, fighting the French as part of the Imperial army in the Franco-Dutch War, an...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/5/battle-of-nauen-wp/u335-battle-of-nauen-the-undefended-country.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Nauen: The Coup at Rathenow https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen/ Photo credit Maximilian Schäfer, Public domain. Swedish Field Marshal Carl Gustav Wrangel's intention was to move from Havelberg across the Elbe, gain the left bank, link up with Hanoverian troops and push on Magdeburg. To secure the river line he sent a detachment forward under Colonel Wangelin to Rathenow. On 15 June Field M...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/5/battle-of-nauen-wp/u335-battle-of-nauen-the-coup-at-rathenow.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Nauen: The Causeway and the Town https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen/ Photo credit Maximilian Schäfer, Public domain. Lieutenant Colonel Sydow's twelve hundred horsemen reached the ground in front of Nauen first, which is why the abandoned guns went into the water. The Brandenburg cavalry chased the retreating Swedes to the edge of the town and cut them down as they ran — most of the men who die...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/5/battle-of-nauen-wp/u335-battle-of-nauen-the-causeway-and-the-town.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Nauen: The Bridge That Held https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen/ Photo credit Maximilian Schäfer, Public domain. Beyond the town ran a stream, and at the far end of its bridge the Swedes had built a battery. That was where the Brandenburg pursuit stopped. The guns drove the cavalry back with losses, and behind the works the main Swedish army had drawn up in order of battle. Field Marshal Ge...

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]]> Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/3/3/5/battle-of-nauen-wp/u335-battle-of-nauen-the-bridge-that-held.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Nauen: Five-Thirty the Next Morning https://qualla.com/battle-of-nauen/ Photo credit Maximilian Schäfer, Public domain. By the evening of 17 June the two armies were close enough to hear one another, and the Brandenburg camp expected to fight at first light in front of the gates of Nauen. The Swedes had other plans. They used the darkness to break contact and slip away northwest toward Fehrbellin....

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