Qualla: Battle of Selburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/4/1/battle-of-selburg-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Selburg https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg Battle of Selburg: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Two twelve-pounder guns changed everything. Sometime in September 1626, on a hill above the Daugava River, Swedish gunners under Jacob De la Gardie ranged in on a Polish encampment around Selburg castle and opened fire. The shells fell into a sleeping camp of roughly two thousand men, and within minutes a riot was running through the Polish lines. By the next morning, when the Polish artillery finally answered, the battle was already lost.

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/4/1/battle-of-selburg-wp/ud41-battle-of-selburg-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Selburg: A River Worth Fighting For https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. The Daugava is the spine of eastern Latvia, a slow brown river that drains a quarter of a million square kilometers down to the Gulf of Riga. In the seventeenth century it was something more — a highway, a frontier, and a gun barrel pointed straight at the warehouses of Riga. Who...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/4/1/battle-of-selburg-wp/ud41-battle-of-selburg-a-river-worth-fighting-for.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Selburg: Without Water https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Selburg fell back into Polish hands earlier in 1626 not to a brilliant assault but to a much older enemy. Aleksander Gosiewski, the Polish commander in Livonia, brought his men up to the castle walls and waited. The garrison's wells went dry. After only a few days the Swedes insi...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/4/1/battle-of-selburg-wp/ud41-battle-of-selburg-without-water.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Selburg: Two Guns, One Morning https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. What followed was less a battle than an artillery ambush. De la Gardie placed his twelve-pounders where they could rake the Polish camp and began firing without warning. The Polish soldiers, caught between sleep and breakfast, stampeded through their own lines. Officers tried to ...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/4/1/battle-of-selburg-wp/ud41-battle-of-selburg-two-guns-one-morning.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Selburg: What the Walls Could Not Save https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Before retreating toward Bauske, the Polish forces did what defeated armies often did in the seventeenth century — they wrecked what they could not keep. Selburg's city walls came down stone by stone, denied to the next garrison. Swedish sources counted about three hundred Polish...

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]]> Fri, 24 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/d/4/1/battle-of-selburg-wp/ud41-battle-of-selburg-what-the-walls-could-not-save.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Selburg: The Ground Today https://qualla.com/battle-of-selburg/ Photo credit Unknown author, Public domain. Selburg is now Sēlpils, a quiet village in Jēkabpils Municipality on the south bank of the Daugava, surrounded by the rolling forests and lakes of historic Selonia. The medieval castle whose walls the Poles tore down stands today only as low ruins on a hill — and even those have ...

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