Conflict between the Swedes and their various neighbours between 1670s and 1721. Including topics on Danes, Saxons, Saxon-Polish, Russians and anyone else the boys in blue were mixing it with!
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Gunfreak
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by Gunfreak » Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:13 am
Haha, those battle scenes in the mini-series were funny, Swedish infantry with modern double barrel shotguns, and various other none flintlock guns.
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The Rabblerouser
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by The Rabblerouser » Mon Jul 16, 2018 2:11 pm
Gunfreak wrote: ↑Mon Jul 16, 2018 10:13 am
Haha, those battle scenes in the mini-series were funny, Swedish infantry with modern double barrel shotguns, and various other none flintlock guns.
Double barrel shotguns... great innovators the Swedes
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by turrabear » Wed Jul 18, 2018 4:00 pm
Didn,t know that the peter the great mini series was based on massies book.
Obviously the tv studio never actually read it.