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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Re: Great Northern War: The Confusingest Part

[mildred_of_midgard]

Really, I don't see the logic here, C12. Did not Sweden itself capture Stettin by invasion?

You're not the first to point this out. :) It's the age-old story where most countries got most things using a greater or lesser amount of violence, and then possession was legitimated by some treaty, and then the possessing country cried foul when someone tried to repossess them. *cough* Silesia. Or as I like to say, invoking the Princess Bride quote, "You're trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen!"