Great Northern War/1719%e2%80%931721 - Sweden

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    “I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
    —Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

    “Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.”
    —Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679)