Just found out about the death of King Charles XII of Sweden during the siege of Fredriksten and the subsequent fall of the Swedish Empire. Swedebros, I’m so sorry…
Back when swedes were manly
>lemme just invade Norwa-ACK
>>217761642(Denmark-)Norway invaded them THOUGH
>>217761279Kino nose. Dare I say, kinose.
i will NEVER forgive...uh...whoever the other guys were
>>217761563Most of the army was finns
>>217761887Why are your people proud of ignorance? Plainly bizzare.
>>217761279Fun fact. The original painting is in the Gothenburg Museum of art. The one in Stockholm is a later copy
>>217761917I recognize that this is a second language for you so I'm graciously forgiving but you must understand that the OP was being facetious and that nobody really cares about niche historical footnotes from some backwater.
>>217761279>daddy builds up a strong, competent army>baby wastes it in a series of rash, musguided wars>dies youngmany such cases
Why, that was a good thing
>>217761913
>>217761279>>217761880One of the most brutal historical cases of Norwood
>>217761945>nicheAmerican education
>>217761966this one's going straight to my Finnish folder
>>217761945>Sweden >backwaterIs this bait?>>217761966KEK!!!>>217761980He's literally just like me frfr.
>>217761279Why do chuds worship this retarded failure who got buckbroken by the russians and then spent the rest of his life running away from and refusing to fight them again while half of his "empire" was occupied by them
>>217761980The Norwood Reaper spares no man, king or peasant
>>217761956Charles XII didn’t start the Great Northern War though, the Russian Empire, Denmark-Norway, and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania realized Sweden was geopolitically isolated and so formed an alliance to land grab as soon as the young inexperienced king inherited the throne. He did way better than he had any expectations for
>>217762300>the Russian empiredidn’t exist at the time. Peter the Great winning the Northern War led him to proclaim the Russian empire. It was the Russian Tsardom prior.
>>217762138He was German. Chuds love Germans.>>217762403What's the difference, Ivan? Same imperialistic backwater shitholes that just threw meat waves at problems.
>>217762464The difference is that Peter the Great was a westaboo who changed the title from Цapь Mocкoвcкий и вceя Pycи (tsar of Moscow and all Rus) to Импepaтop Bcepoccийcкий (All-Russian Emperor) purely for westoid clout. Before that Russia never cared about Latin titles like this. It was all borrowed from Byzantium.
>>217761279MY WILL BE DONE
>>217762614Why did you shoot him? :’(
>>217762982I am from west-jämtland i would not have shot our king
>become king of Sweden at 16 (the great northern power and arguably the most well oiled army in all of Europe at the time, consistently crushing everyone even when outnumbered which was most of the time)>Show up to his coronation with the crown already on his head because God had already chosen him to be king>giga religious>complete military autist>completely abdicated all drinking after pushing and killing the court bear out of the window while shit faced>Russia, Poland and Denmark think they can gang up on Sweden cause he's just a 16 year old boy>Crushes them one by one>They surrender but he refuses to accept it because he sees their gang up as a betrayal (I think the king of Poland at the time was a relative of his but I can't remember)>He wants a crushing victory, no surrender, no peace talks, no negotiation + he loves to fight>Constantly on the frontlines, multiples close calls with death>Didn't worry about dying because God had already chosen the bullet that would kill him so why worry about it>One time got shot in the foot and showed no reaction in front of his men>Foot gets badly infected, on the brink of death, still demanded that his generals carry him on his bed around the battlefield to give orders and be close to the action (pic related)
>A series of bad decisions and bad luck bog down his war against Russia>Marches his exhausted army all the way to the Ottomans to seek refuge>Stays there for a few years>Eventually the Ottomans realize this nigga ain't leaving any time soon and start getting annoyed>get in fights with the Ottomans over minor shit>Eventually march all the way to Sweden to rebuild the war effort>In Germany comes across a random Swedish fort under attack>This fort is of no importance, still decides to stay and fight just for the love of the game>returns to Sweden for the first time in 14 years (yes, 14 years of war)>decides to resume the war effort by taking some land from Norway>Scouting a fortress in the trenches, up close and dirty with the soldiers just like he liked it>generals kept telling him that was no place for a king but he never listened>gets shot out of nowhere in the head and dies instantly>never married, no kids and no known romantic or sexual relationships
>>217761279What about the blade of the officer leading the column?
>>217761279KEK
>>217761966its true. without finns to throw into the meat grinder sweden would have been notihing.
>>217761966Oh my fucking god
>>217761917>that flagkek. Your entire country was brainwashed after WW2
>>217761913>the swedes will fight to the last finn
>>217761966lol
>>217763981Allegedly his last words was to a soldier in the trench next to him "Don't be afraid"
>>217761966Kek
>>217763981Kino King. Thre should be an entire series based on him, his personality and campaigns. He was literally us.
