Charles XII and the collapse of the Swedish empire

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Robert Nisbet Bain’s fascinating work Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire records in fascinating detail the advent and subsequent demise of this remarkable leader. Nisbet Bain was a British historian and linguist who worked for the British Museum. Bain was a fluent linguist who could use over twenty languages/5(5).

Robert Nisbet Bain’s fascinating work Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire records in fascinating detail the advent and subsequent demise of this remarkable leader.

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It isn't a biography of Charles XII, it is more a book about his wars and how they and his actions brought about the collapse of the Swedish Empire/5(4). Internet Archive BookReader Charles XII and the collapse of the Swedish empire, Charles XII and the collapse of the Swedish empire, Author.

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Nisbet Bain (, Paperback) at the. An Precursor to the New School of Thought on King Charles XII of Sweden By Brian Wayne Wells This is a reprint of an biography of King Cha Product Description Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire is a fascinating history of the famous Swedish monarch and the Great Northern War.

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Charles XII, (born JStockholm—died Nov. 30,Fredrikshald, Nor.), king of Sweden (–), an absolute monarch who defended his country for 18 years during the Great Northern War and promoted significant domestic reforms. He launched a disastrous invasion of Russia (–09), resulting in the complete collapse of the Swedish armies and the loss of Sweden’s status.

Bain: Charles was more Extraordinary than Great. American historian Robert Nisbet Bain writes his biography, Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, (among the first written in English) to give an “adequate” description of Charles using the most “recent” research available. Bain’s purpose is to also, “dissipate the many erroneous notions concerning ‘The Lion of the.

Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire, () online. Bengtsson, F. The Life of Charles XII, King of Sweden, (). also published as The sword does not jest. The heroic life of King Charles XII of Sweden (St.

Martin's Press ).Predecessor: Charles XI. Sweden, Swed. Sverige, officially Kingdom of Sweden, constitutional monarchy ( est. pop. 9,),sq mi (, sq km), N Europe, occupying the eastern part of the Scandinavian peninsula. It borders on Norway in the west, on Finland in the northeast, on the Gulf of Bothnia in the east, on the Baltic Sea in the south, and on the Øresund (The Sound), the Kattegat, and the.

Charles’s thick felt hat, for instance, remains on display in a Swedish museum, bearing a hole 19 millimeters in diameter, or about three quarters of an inch—a clear indicator of the size, and Author: Mike Dash.As Charles XII fell, so did the Swedish Empire. This was the empire which was chiefly created by Gustavus Adolphus when he brought his army to continental Europe in the Thirty Years War.

By the end of this war, Sweden had gained the title of a major power and prestige as the invincible champion of the Protestant cause for the remainder of the.The Battle of Poltava,marks the birth of Peter the Great’s vast Russian Empire.

Inthe Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony, and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. When the forces finally defeated King Charles XII of Sweden in at Poltava, in the Ukraine, it proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the.