Siege of Stralsund (1628)

Siege of Stralsund
	Part of Thirty Years' War
	; Contemporary colored engraving
Date	May to 4 August 1628
Location	Stralsund, Duchy of Pomerania; present-day Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany
Result	Allied victory:; Siege lifted, Imperial troops withdraw
Belligerents
Denmark-Norway; Kingdom of Sweden; Stralsund	Holy Roman Empire
Commanders and leaders
Heinrich Holk; Alexander Seaton; Alexander Lindsay (commanding Mackay's); Robert Munro; Alexander Leslie	Albrecht von Wallenstein; Hans Georg von Arnim
	Stralsund Location within Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Stralsund Stralsund (Germany)

The siege of Stralsund was a siege laid on Stralsund by Albrecht von Wallenstein's Imperial Army during the Thirty Years' War, from 13 May 1628 to 4 August 1628. Stralsund was aided by Denmark and Sweden, with considerable Scottish participation. The lifting of the siege ended Wallenstein's series of victories, and contributed to his downfall. The Swedish garrison in Stralsund was the first on German soil in history. The battle marked the de facto entrance of Sweden into the war.

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