"The Common Cause-The Life and Death of the Anglo-Swedish" Topic

… Alliance against France, 1805-1809.

"By the early eighteenth century when Britain was poised to become the paramount world power Sweden's great power era had already ended due to her catastrophic defeat in the Great Northern War (1700-1721). Having blamed Sweden's defeat upon autocracy Sweden's nobility opted to establish a
parliamentary regime dominated by two parties, the Caps and Hats, but ruled for most of the time by the latter party. The Russian threat was a constant Swedish foreign policy theme as was the issue whether Sweden should remain isolated from continental politics by observing strict neutrality or reassert Sweden! s pretensions of power by meddling in European politics. In 1757 the Hats believed
(as did Gustavus IV in 1805) that the time was ripe to intervene on the continent against Prussia on the side of a powerfid allied coalition that they hoped would be victorious. Both interventions led to revolution and the fall of the regimes that had risked an intervention in the dangerous waters of continental politics.

Sweden's king, Gustavus III (Gustavus W s father), exploited the failures of the discredited parliamentary regime to overthrow it on 19 August 1772. The Russians and Danes, united by their emnity of Sweden, feared that Gustavus would preside over a resurgent and therefore threatening Sweden. Their planned pre-emptive invasion of Sweden a year later however came to nothing because France intervene to prevent it. The price Sweden paid for France's timely intervention was to give her ally limited support in the American war against Britain. But Gustavus…"

A link would be nice, Tango!

Oh!. Not again… I'm gettin old… (smile)

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Armand

Here we go…

link

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Armand

Great discovery Armand, thanks

A votre service mon ami!. (smile)

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Armand