Prussian Fortresses in the Swedish and Russian campaigns of the Seven Years War
The fall of fortress Kolberg in 1761 (Seven Years’ War) to Russian troops Siege of Kolberg 1760 Between 1721 and the opening of the Seven Years War, Swedish military prowess had fallen almost as far as that of France. ‘They were brave once’, said the Russian commander Saltykov, ‘but now their time is past’ (Montalembert, […]
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