This will be my music from now on.” That is how Charles XII of Sweden referred to the thunder of the cannons he heard during ...

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A team from the Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage Research has uncovered a long-lost secret passageway from the time of the Great Northern War. The Galärvegen, or ‘Galley Road’, was a strip of ...

12.1 x 8.7 cm. (4.8 x 3.4 in.) H. W. Singer, Allgemeiner Bildniskatalog, 1932, vol. VI, p. 269, no. 47330. R. Zijma, Hollstein’s German Engravings, Etchings and ...

In 1721, stubborn Charles XII of Sweden gave up hope of beating Russia’s huge black-haired Peter the Great, signed the Peace of Nystad. Among lands ceded to Russia at that time, was flat marshy Dagö ...

47.5 x 32.5 cm. (18.7 x 12.8 in.) ...

An historical film depicting the life of Charles XII of Sweden (1682-1718), who oversaw the expansion of the Swedish Empire until its defeat at the Battle of Poltava.

Emanuel Swedenborg was a physicist; in 1716 King Charles XII of Sweden appointed him assessor-extraordinary to the Royal Board of Mines. He was also perhaps the most versatile genius-of-all-trades ...