This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...ended in their establishing a foothold there; and only the splendid generalship of Stenbock in 1710 had held the enemy at bay. In the meantime, all of Sweden's Baltic provinces had fallen into the possession of the Czar, who had also successfully invaded Finland. As a consequence, Poland had been evacuated by the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 Excerpt: ...ended in their establishing a foothold there; and only the splendid generalship of Stenbock in 1710 had held the enemy at bay. In the meantime, all of Sweden's Baltic provinces had fallen into the possession of the Czar, who had also successfully invaded Finland. As a consequence, Poland had been evacuated by the Swedes and the army withdrawn to Swedish Pomerania, with King Stanislas as a refugee in the Swedish camp. Although without the possibility of obtaining effective allies during the war of the Spanish succession, Charles XII might nevertheless have profited from it by adhering to the compact of neutrality of March 31, 1710, which would have secured the safety of his German possessions without cost to him; but, believing that the maritime powers, in spite of their absorption in a costly war, would aid him against Denmark, on November 30, 1710, he had, against the advice of his friends, formally repudiated the offer of neutrality. Thus, the security of the Swedish possessions was made to depend solely upon their own defensive powers against all his enemies at once, while he awaited the uncertain fortunes of the Russo-Turkish conflict. With this opportunity of aggression, the Danes in 1712 had invaded and occupied the Duchy of Bremen, while the coalition against Sweden worked its will on the Baltic. It is true Chap. V A. D. 1716-1731 The condition of Sweden in 1718 that the Peace of the Pruth was broken and war with Russia resumed by the Turks at the instigation of Charles XII; but this was of no direct profit to Sweden, and even if the war had not soon ended with the Peace of Adrianople, it is difficult to see how the conflict between Turkey and Russia could ever have been more than a diversion of the attack upon Sweden. Whatever the personal influence...
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