"The Great Sleigh Drive" (German: Die große Schlittenfahrt) from December 1678 to February 1679 was a daring and bold maneuver using sleighs by Frederick...
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noted victories in Warsaw (1656) and Fehrbellin (1675) and by the Great Sleigh Drive (1678). Brandenburg-Prussia also established a navy and German colonies...
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Marstrand Conquest of Jemtland Uddevalla Warksow Rügen Stralsund Great Sleigh Drive Pyrenees Maureillas Espouilles Americas Dutch Raid on North America...
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Prussian Army (section The Great Elector)
"the Great Elector". After Sweden invaded Prussia in late 1678, Frederick William's forces expelled the Swedish invaders during the "Great Sleigh Drive" of...
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Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg (redirect from Great Elector)
another Swedish army that invaded the Duchy of Prussia during the Great Sleigh Drive in 1678. He is noted for his use of broad directives and delegation...
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Marstrand Conquest of Jemtland Uddevalla Warksow Rügen Stralsund Great Sleigh Drive Pyrenees Maureillas Espouilles Americas Dutch Raid on North America...
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the remaining part of the French navy, to relieve São Tomé together and drive the Dutch out of the area. But the English made no attempt to do so and...
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fought between Prussia and Great Britain on one side and Austria, France, Sweden and Russia on the other, involved all the great European powers of the time...
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very suspicious of the bizarre course of events. Only Tromp clashed with great fury with his eternal enemy Spragge until nightfall. A heavy sea made it...
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