18th-Century Characters, Including Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 32

[cahn]

:) Still talking about Charles XII of Sweden / the Great Northern War and the Stuarts and the Jacobites, among other things!

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[mildred_of_midgard]

Kalabalik: I realized I had a typo in write-up. The wine that Charles drank during the long siege, when the building was on fire, was supposed to have been the first alcohol of any kind, not just the first brandy, that he had drunk in many years. He was famous for not touching alcohol, or at best watery beer. (But at least one historian, as noted, says that this may not be something to take literally.) At any rate, he wasn't in the Anti-Sobriety society with FW and Augustus! And Peter the Great, who effectively had his own. (There were written rules for his society. They involved mandatory drinking. Lots of it.)