Marche de Schlippenbach (Slippenbachs Marsch)
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 Published On Dec 27, 2020

Marche de Slippenbache (or Slippenbach's marsch) is a Swedish march named after a Baltic nobleman with the name Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach (1653-1721).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolmar_...

One of the prime sources we got for Swedish marches of the Caroleans are those written down by Otto Fredrik Stålhammar in 1708. One of those marches is Marche de Slippenbache (the French sounding name comes from the fact that French was lingua franca during the early 1700's).

Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach became a Colonel for a dragoon regiment which he himself had created in 1700, to fight on the side of the Swedish King Carolus Rex in the Great Northern War (1700-1721). And soon he got responsibility from the King to handle defense of the Livonia from the Russian troops, while the main force of the Swedish army fought in Poland.

Later on he would join the Swedish King in his attempt to invade Russia in 1709.
But as everyone knows who read Swedish military history did this project end with a major military defeat at the battle of Poltava in 1709. Poltava is to Swedes, what Waterloo is to the French, or what Stalingrad was to the Germans, or what Pickets charge at Gettysburg was to the Confederate states or what the battle of Kosovo polje is to the Serbs.
It was an epic battle between two great powers that would forever decide history. The Swedish army fought hard and the Swedish empire came crashing down under the sound of military music and flying colors.

Wolmar got captured by the Russians. And after a few years he would commit treason by entering service in the Russian army as a Lieutenant general, and he became a Baron got an estate in Courland.

The march would later on become pretty much forgotten in Sweden. It did however become the march of the Swedish Armed Forces Staff College, despite the march being named after a man who collaborated with the enemy.
Personally I had to make much internet search before I could hear a version of this march, which you hear in this video. It comes from the following place:
http://www.qrzn.hooga.se/muzique/ks20...

Marschen är från Karl XII's tid och har översatts till modern notskrift av Ernst Ellberg som gav ut en pianobok med flera militärmarscher från den Karolinska tiden.

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