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Swedes suffer wide Russian coastal burning raid in 1700s
The narrative describes major Russian incursions into Sweden, burning towns and works from Nyköping to Stockholm’s outskirts. Admiral Spraxin and General Leffy led gallies to left and right of Stockholm, destroying copper and iron works, mills, warehouses, and villages. Czar’s order spared unarmed inhabitants.
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Sir Fohn Norv
Brut
Stockholm
Coults
Sweden
Peterbourgh
Spraxin
Lind Wie
Lameland
Lefy
Offerman
Nrkoping
Gewel
North Tille
Daleroon
Gooder-Telle
Traffe
Nykoping
Norkoping
Leffy
Oferhamen
Oregrundt
Sears