Leaving to Count Stalhaus to continue to press the enemy, Gustavus,
accompanied by his staff, rode at full gallop to the left at the
head of Steinboch's regiment of dragoons. Arrived on the spot
he dashed to the front at a point where his men had not yet been
forced back across the road, and riding among them roused them to
fresh exertions. By his side were Franz Albert of Lauenberg and a few
other followers. But his pace had been so furious that Steinboch's
dragoons had not yet arrived. As he urged on his broken men
Gustavus was struck in the shoulder by a musketball. He reeled in
his saddle, but exclaimed, "It is nothing," and ordered them to
charge the enemy with the dragoons. Malcolm Graheme and others
on his staff hesitated, but the king exclaimed, "Ride all, the
duke will see to me." The cavalry dashed forward, and the king,
accompanied only by Franz Albert, Duke of Lauenberg, turned to leave
the field, but he had scarcely moved a few paces when he received
another shot in the back. Calling out to Franz Albert that it was
all over with him, the mortally wounded king fell to the ground.
Franz Albert, believing the battle lost, galloped away; the king's
page alone remained with the dying man. A minute later three
Austrian cuirassiers rode up, and demanded the name of the dying
man. The page Leubelfing refused to give it, and firing their pistols
at him they stretched him mortally wounded beside the dying king.
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