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Peter the Great
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- Copyrightindehaver
- Head of Zeus
- Udgivelsesår
- 2012
- Forlag
- Head of Zeus
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- Anna Chasovikovahar citeretfor 3 dage siden
Peter was right. The Swedes did return—but again and again they were beaten off. Through the centuries, none of the conquerors who subsequently entered Russia with great armies—Charles XII, Napoleon, Hitler—was able to capture Peter’s Baltic port, although Nazi armies besieged the city for 900 days in World War II. From the day that Peter the Great first set foot on the mouth of the Neva, the land and the city which arose there have always remained Russian. - Anna Chasovikovahar citeretfor 3 dage sidenAlthough Charles’ body was frail, his boyhood was spent in rough, masculine activity. When he was only four, the people of Stockholm became accustomed to seeing his small figure in the saddle, riding behind his father at military reviews. At six, he was taken out of the care of women and installed in his own apartment with male tutors and servants. At seven he shot a fox, at eight he killed three deer in one day, at ten he killed his first wolf and at eleven his first bear.
- Anna Chasovikovahar citeretfor 3 dage sidenLouis himself paid credit to his servant: “A town defended by Vauban is a town impregnable; a town besieged by Vauban is a town taken.”*
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