Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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Author: John Hattendorf
Publisher: Protagonists of History in International Perspective
ISBN: 9789490258191
Category : Europe, Northern
Languages : en
Pages : 456

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For centuries, Charles XII has mainly been seen in the context of Sweden's national experience, yet his activities stretched across the European continent from Russia and Denmark to Germany, Austria, Poland, Ukraine, and the Ottoman Empire. Even the Dutch Republic, Britain, and France became involved diplomatically and economically. In this volume, 20 scholars from 12 different countries contribute to creating a broader perspective on Charles XII and the Great Northern War in European history. The contributors to this volume expand the scope of international research on Charles XII and his time by examining not only his victories and defeats but the king's impact in other areas as well.

Author: Michael Glaeser
Publisher: Century of the Soldier
ISBN: 9781913336462
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages :

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By Defeating My Enemies looks at the life and reign of Charles XII of Sweden and provides context and reassessment of his military career in the Great Northern War.

Author: Robert Nisbet Bain
Publisher: New York, G.P. Putnam's sons
ISBN:
Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category : Sweden
Languages : en
Pages : 466

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Author: Ragnhild Marie Hatton
Publisher:
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Category : Kings and rulers
Languages : en
Pages : 700

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Author: Voltaire
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Author: Sergey Shamenkov
Publisher: Helion and Company
ISBN: 1804515965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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This book is a continuation of the special series devoted to the Swedish Army from the time of Charles XII. It examines in detail the uniforms and equipment of the Swedish cavalry during the Great North War. Based on iconographic and written sources, the development, changes, and differences in the uniforms and equipment of officers, non-commissioned officers, troopers and musicians, of both the Horse and the Dragoon regiments, as well as their horse furniture are covered. A separate chapter examines changes in the uniform of the Royal Drabant Corps. The book uses material from published studies and articles, as well as previously unpublished documents and other little-known illustrated material. The text is complemented by paintings, details of paintings, and engravings of Swedish cavalrymen created during the period of the Great Northern War. Many of the details from the paintings are shown here for the first time. The author has used numerous artifacts and portraits, as well as archive sources, on the theme of the Swedish army during the Great North War from the collections of Swedish museums as well as those of museums in both Russia and the Ukraine. As in the first volume dedicated to the Swedish infantry and artillerymen, the book presents photographs of various finds of items of Swedish equipment found on the battlefields of the Great North War. Additionally, the book presents many of the author's reconstructions of uniform items of the Swedish cavalry, in both color and black and white, especially created for this book. The presented information will prove invaluable to professional historians, museum staff, artists, participants in the various military-historical re-enactment societies, as well as to those enthusiasts who reconstruct the armies and battles of the Great North War on their wargaming tables.

Author: Anthony F. Upton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521573900
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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The reading public outside Sweden knows little of that country's history, beyond the dramatic and short-lived era in the seventeenth century when Sweden under Gustavus Adolphus became a major European power by her intervention in the Thirty Years War. In the last decades of the seventeenth century another Swedish king, Charles XI, launched a less dramatic but remarkable bid to stabilize and secure Sweden's position as a major power in northern Europe and as master of the Baltic Sea. This project, which is almost unknown to students of history outside Sweden, involved a comprehensive overhaul of the government and institutions of the kingdom, on the basis of establishing Sweden as a model of absolute monarchy. This 1998 book gives an account of what was achieved under the absolutist direction of a distinctly unglamorous, but pious and conscientious ruler.

Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521528610
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220

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Essays, by the doyen of historians of Sweden, on Oxenstierna, Charles X and Charles XII.