GREAT NORTHERN WAR
May 14, 2020
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Source: Wiki / PD-Art
1698-99
CONTINENTAL RIVALRIES
Sweden has been the dominant power around the Baltic Sea since the Thirty Years’ War (1618-48) but at the end of the 17th century the country is ruled by a new, teenage king – Charles XII. An anti-Swedish alliance headed by Tsar Peter I (‘the Great’) of Russia includes Augustus II of Saxony-Poland-Lithuania and Frederik IV of Denmark-Norway. Their joint aim is to reduce Sweden’s power.
1700
ATTACKS ON SWEDISH TERRITORY
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