by Karen Nyenhuis | Oct 22, 2025 | Great Northern War
original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart Tall Ships from 1700 to 1721 The decades of the Great Northern War were a time of change in the design of tall ships. Most well-known books featuring tall ships are set a hundred years later during the Napoleonic Wars...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Jul 4, 2025 | Great Northern War
Original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart. Conscription of Peasants in the Danish-Norwegian Army C.A. Sapherson, in The Danish Army 1699-1715, gives a total of 12,848 total soldiers in Norway in 1699, with 1838 of those hvervede infantry, or professional...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Feb 13, 2025 | Great Northern War
Original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart. Peter Wessel Tordenskjold Peter Wessel Tordenskjold was a Danish larger-than-life figure in the Great Northern War. I was happy to find a book in English by Col. Hans Christian Adamson that recounts some of the...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Feb 12, 2025 | Great Northern War
Original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart. A Sneak Attack on the Swedes Finding sources for the Great Northern War written in English has been a challenge. I stumbled on a volume written by Danish-born U.S. Air Force Colonel Hans Christian Adamson which has...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Dec 18, 2024 | Great Northern War
Original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart. King Karl XII – The Decline Battle of Poltava Swedish King Karl XII, his name often Anglicized as Charles XII, was injured during the Battle of Poltava. Karl had been injured in the foot by misplaced cannon...
by Karen Nyenhuis | Dec 14, 2024 | Great Northern War
Original rendering of a snow brig by @kris_tinsart. Battle of Poltava The Battle of Poltava occurred in what is modern-day Ukraine, although in 1709 it was part of mainland Russia under Peter the Great. I found an excellent lecture on the Battle of Poltava from the...
