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    and the raids of single unit in the inland, during the finishing years of the Great Northern War in 17191721. The purpose was to pillage, sack, and burn...
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    Trosa (category Municipal seats of Södermanland County)
    1610. The city was burnt down and plundered by Russians in 1719 during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721 and was repeatedly attacked during the Great Northern...
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    August - The Russian Pillage of 1719-1721. 24 July - Nyköping is burned during the Russian Pillage of 17191721. 13 August - The Russian unsuccessfully...
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    end of the Great Northern War. During the Russian Pillage of 17191721 in August of the summer of 1719, the Russian Fleet attacked the capital of Stockholm...
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    Västernorrland County, Sweden. Säbrå Church was built after the Russian Pillage of 17191721. Its present appearance dates largely from changes made in 1758–1759...
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    Hudiksvall (category Municipal seats of Gävleborg County)
    times, the most severe when it was burnt by the Russians during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721 in 1721, whereafter only the church remained. The current...
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    1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter the Great in 1721. From 1550 to 1700, Russia grew by an average of 35,000 square kilometres (14...
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    Piteå (redirect from History of Piteå)
    forms the nucleus of present-day Piteå. In 1721, the new town was burnt down by Russian troops during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721, and the only building...
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    1721 in Sweden Monarch – Frederick I 15 April - A great fire in Gothenburg. 25 May - The Battle of Sundsvall during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721....
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    Brita Olsdotter (category Swedish people of the Great Northern War)
    saved by individual acts and personal courage. During the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721, the Russian army burned Norrköping and then marched south towards...
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    The first time, in 1721, it was set on fire by the Russian army during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721. According to one historian,[who?] Swedish industrialism...
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  • that got attacked in the Russian pillage of 17191721 as part of the Great Northern War. Alongside Statistics Sweden's changing of its method for determining...
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    Sebastian July 11 – Russia's Baltic Sea fleet is first spotted from the Swedish coast, starting the Russian Pillage of 1719–21 as part of the Great Northern...
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    1669, and in 1719 it was burnt down by a Russian army during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721. The army also attacked the nearby town of Norrköping. The...
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    Oxenstierna. In 1719, during the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721, the castle was burnt to the ground by Russian troops. Reconstruction of the castle did not...
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    Stockholm's permanent defence (category Military history of Stockholm)
    the Swedish Baltic Sea coast during the Russian Pillage of 17191721. Throughout the 19th century, the question of Stockholm's protection against attacks...
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    Maria Gustava Gyllenstierna (category Swedish people of the Great Northern War)
    she was generally to superior to them. During the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721, when the Russians where sacking the territory, she made saved Tyresö...
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  • 1719, it is mentioned how Catherine was present in the city of Norrköping when it was attacked and sacked by the Russians during the Russian Pillage of...
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  • История военных конфликтов 1142-1809 [Russia and Sweden. The history of military conflicts 1142-1809] (in Russian). Saint-Petersburg: RME Group Oy:Алетейя...
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    Arholma (category Geography of Stockholm)
    ruins of Lidö Castle, destroyed in the Russian Pillage of 1719-1721, which also badly affected Arholma. The lighthouse is visible from a distance of 15 nautical...
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  • Stockholm Army (category 1719 establishments)
    was an army consisting of 8,000–9,000 troops formed in 1719 in order to defend Sweden's capital city, Stockholm, from Russian attacks during the Great...
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    house which in its turn was destroyed by Russian troops during the Russian Pillage (Rysshärjningarna) of 17191721. A later house was also torn down by the...
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  • 1710s (redirect from 1710-1719)
    Sebastian July 11 – Russia's Baltic Sea fleet is first spotted from the Swedish coast, starting the Russian Pillage of 1719–21 as part of the Great Northern...
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  • The sack of Shamakhi took place on 18 August 1721, when rebellious Sunni Lezgins, within the declining Safavid Empire, attacked the capital of Shirvan...
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    its creation in 1721 by Peter the Great, until the Russian Revolution (1917), which led to the establishment of the Soviet Union. Much of the related events...
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    Republic of Karelia, Karjala or Karelia (Russian: Каре́лия, Ка́рьяла; Karelian: Karjala) is a republic of Russia situated in the northwest of the country...
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    Charles De Geer (category Members of the French Academy of Sciences)
    Lövstabruk had been burnt down by Russian troops in July 1719, during the Russian Pillage of 17191721 at the end of the Great Northern War, and the losses...
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    the south-eastern part of the Finnish territories, in 1721 as a result of the Great Northern War. Sweden ceded the remainder of Old Finland in 1743 following...
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  • and pillage the town. Battle of Werben 1 August – Between the Swedish Empire and the Holy Roman Empire. The Swedes forced them to retreat. Battle of Albrolhos...
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    exploited every opportunity to pillage Spanish targets, whether or not a letter of marque was available. Many of the letters of marque used by buccaneers were...
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