Carl Gustaf Roos

Baron Carl Gustav Roos from the noble Roos ( born December 25, 1655 in Västergötland, † on the way home after the Russian prisoner of war, buried in 1722 in Turku ) was a Swedish baron and last major general in the Swedish army.

Family

Carl Gustav Roos was during the Polish campaign in 1705 by King Charles XII. Freiherr dignity granted.

His son was Axel Erik Roos, a Swedish Lieutenant General and Governor.

Military Career

His military service began Karl Gustav Ross in 1674 as an ensign in the army of the Habsburg emperor. A year after joining the army, he was appointed lieutenant. He also grew, at the Battle of Trier and the siege of Philipsburg, in 1676, in part.

Roos returned to Sweden in 1677. He was also nominated in the Swedish army lieutenant and appointed to the Bohuslän Dragoon Regiment. In 1678 he was promoted to Major and dislocation in the Skaraborgs Infantry Regiment. Roos is after eight years promoted to lieutenant colonel in this regiment and transferred to Riga in the regiment of Erik Soop.

At the beginning of the Great Northern War, Roos was still in Riga and marched in 1700 with the Swedish army under the command of the young Swedish King Karl XII. Narva direction. In the Battle of Narva to Roos was distinguished by its boldness and leadership and was appointed in succession to Colonel.

1706 Roos was appointed Major General and was awarded a year later, the command of the Orebro - Värmlandö Regiment. This year his son joined as an ensign in this regiment.

On August 31, 1708, he commanded the vanguard of the Swedish army in the Battle of Moljatitschi. The Swedish army was at this time on the rise of Mogilev to Smolensk. Under the advantage of the fact that the main part of the Swedish army was relatively far fallen behind the vanguard, was Tsar Peter the Great Golitsyn command, this attack in the morning mist. The Russians could go unnoticed come near to the vanguard and surprise her with strong fire attack.

The troops of Roos wore heavy losses it and withdrew. The swampy landscape prevented the Russians for their persecution. The Russian cavalry was the Swedes do not cut the retraction under Menshikov. Only the arrival of the main forces of Sweden together with King Charles XII. Roos and his troops rescued from total destruction.

On June 27, 1709 Roos took part in the Battle of Poltava. Major General Roos remained, in the absence of other instructions, at the beginning of the Battle of the entrenchments near Poltava. Thus he was cut off from the main army. Together with the units of General Schlippenbach, who had also lost the connection to the main army, they were attacked by the troops of the Russian General Menshikov and driven back to the woods near Poltava. Roos retired with his troops ( four squadrons of cavalry ) behind some entrenchments back, but had to after a short battle the Russian lieutenant general Renzel result. Together with the other prisoners being brought to Moscow and spent the next twelve years in captivity.

After the signing of the Treaty of Nystad in 1721 Roos was released. He died on the way home to Sweden and was buried in Turku.