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The Great
Northern War was fought during the years 1700-1721 between Sweden and a
coalition of countries who sought to carve up the Swedish Baltic Sea Empire
between themselves. The coalition, which included Denmark, Saxony, Russia,
Prussia and Hanover, would eventually succeed in their endeavour even though
the war reached an epic scale as the greatly outnumbered Swedes fought hard
and won many battles in their two decade long effort to keep their realm
intact.
As a part of my
own hobby of casting and painting miniatures of the soldiers fighting the
Great Northern War, I take a great interest of the visual aspects of this
war, such as the uniforms of the regiments participating in the battles as
well as their colours and standards. Since there are others who share my
interest for this war, I have created this website and published much of the
information I have acquired and made it accessible for everyone.
The pages on
this website have been translated to English from the original Swedish. Not
everything from the Swedish version of the website has been translated. For example,
the gallery showing my own
miniatures is omitted. Also omitted in the
translation is my list of references, but those who are interested in my
sources should not find the Swedish page too difficult to understand.
Örjan Martinsson
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