Charles XII and the Collapse of the Swedish Empire

Nonfiction, History, Scandinavia, Modern, 18th Century
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Author: R. Nisbet Bain ISBN: 9781518336676
Publisher: Perennial Press Publication: December 13, 2015
Imprint: Language: English
Author: R. Nisbet Bain
ISBN: 9781518336676
Publisher: Perennial Press
Publication: December 13, 2015
Imprint:
Language: English

THE present work has no pretention to be anything like an exhaustive biography of Charles XII.--a perfectly adequate treatment of so large and complex a subject would demand many volumes. But it does claim to at least suggest the lines on which such a biography should be written, it professes to present the leading facts of the heroic monarch's career in the light of the latest investigations and it endeavours to dissipate the many erroneous notions concerning "The Lion of the North" for which Voltaire's brilliant and attractive work, I have almost said romance, Histoire de Charles XII. is mainly responsible…

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THE present work has no pretention to be anything like an exhaustive biography of Charles XII.--a perfectly adequate treatment of so large and complex a subject would demand many volumes. But it does claim to at least suggest the lines on which such a biography should be written, it professes to present the leading facts of the heroic monarch's career in the light of the latest investigations and it endeavours to dissipate the many erroneous notions concerning "The Lion of the North" for which Voltaire's brilliant and attractive work, I have almost said romance, Histoire de Charles XII. is mainly responsible…

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