As of 1629, when the war that would come to be known as the "30 years war" entered its 11th year, Denmark`s intervention on the side of the Protestant Estates of the Realm ended with a military as well as a political disaster for King Christian IV. and his German Protestant allies. Wallenstein had lured the Danish King and his army deep into North Germany`s heartland, thusly forcing him to overstretch his supply lines, isolating the Danish army from both the Baltic Seaports and the motherland`s continental border to fall back upon. In masterful fashion, the Kaiser`s Generalissimus managed to avoid battle, keeping the enemy in a state of constant motion. Pursuing the Imperial army ever more deeply up the Elbe, the Danish invasion force increasingly suffered from disciplinary prawblems. mutiny was rife, but before King Christian`s troops could dissolve into thin air, they were routed by Wallenstein`s army at the Elbe Bridge near Dessau in the Duchy of Saxony.
