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Stockholm Army
The Stockholm Army () was an army consisting of 8,000–9,000 troops formed in 1719 in order to defend Sweden's capital city, Stockholm, from Russian Pillage of 1719–1721, Russian attacks during the Great Northern War. Russian attacks In the summer of 1719, the galley fleet of Russia which consisted of about 130 galleys, 100 smaller ships and 26,000 Infantry and Cavalry was assembled for an attack towards Sweden and on July 11, the first Russian ships had arrived at Kapellskär. Their instructions were to plunder and ravage the Swedish coast, but not to "bother" the civilian population unnecessarily. Along the coast, everything valuable was destroyed. The Swedish defense forces were unable to intervene. The Russian galleys quickly travelled between the islands and islets, and it was almost impossible for the Swedes to know where they would strike next. Establishment In Sweden, the people had long been aware that attacks on the coast were to be expected. The Swedish resour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Age Of Liberty
In Swedish history, the Age of Liberty () was a period that saw parliamentary governance, increasing civil rights, and the decline of the Swedish Empire that began with the adoption of the Instrument of Government in 1719 and ended with Gustav III's self-coup in 1772. This shift of power from the monarch to parliament was a direct effect of the Great Northern War. Suffrage under the parliamentary government was not universal. Although the taxed peasantry was represented in the Parliament, its influence was disproportionately small, and commoners without taxed property had no suffrage at all. Great Northern War Following the death of Charles XI of Sweden, his young son Charles XII became king, and in 1697, when he was only 15 years old, he was proclaimed to be of age and took over the rule from the provisional government. The states in which Sweden's expansion into a great power had primarily been at the expense of Denmark and Russia, formed a coalition with Saxony two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |