Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
King Charles XII ascended to the Swedish throne at the age of 15 in 1705, and immediately set out to wage war against the world around him. He earned the nickname “the Swedish Meteor” when he conquered Denmark-Norway and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania in the 18th century.
The meteor, as it happened, fizzled. In 1708, Charles XII decided to make what is now considered a military misstep: invading Russia. After Russian forces destroyed his troops at the battle of Poltava in 1709, Charles fled to the Ottoman Empire, another enemy of Russia. Settling with 1,000 men in what…
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