Bringing Home the Body of King Charles XII by Gustaf Cederström (1884)
Date
30 November 1718
Location
Fredriksten, Fredrikshald, Norway
Result
Dano-Norwegian victory
Belligerents
Denmark–Norway
Swedish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Barthold Landsberg
Charles XII †
Strength
1,800
21,000 [1]
Casualties and losses
9 killed 10 wounded 19 prisoners
200 killed and wounded
v
t
e
Great Northern War
Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp (1700)
1st Tönning
Reinbek
Humlebæk
Swedish Baltic dominions
1st Riga
Varja
1st Narva
Düna
Rauge
Erastfer
Hummelshof
Nöteborg
Systerbäck
Wesenberg
2nd Narva
Neva
Koporye
Kolkanpää
2nd Riga
Courland and Western Lithuania
Tryškiai
Darsūniškis
Vilnius
Saločiai
Jakobstadt
Palanga
Gemauerthof
1st Grodno
Valkininkai
Kletsk
2nd Grodno
Poland and Saxony
Kliszów
Pułtusk
Thorn
Poznań
Lemberg
Poniec
Warsaw
Praga
Fraustadt
Rosenhain
Frauenwald
Kalisz
Koniecpol
Russia and Eastern Lithuania
Petschora
Holowczyn
Malatitze
Rajovka
Lesnaya
Desna
Baturyn
Veprik
Oposhnya
Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye
Sokolki
Poltava
Perevolochna
Sweden proper (including Finland)
Helsingborg
(2nd Viborg
Helsinki
Pälkäne
Napue)
Gothenburg
Göta Älv
Strömstad
Marstrand
Stäket
Moldavia
Pruth Campaign
Bender
Swedish German dominions
Wismar
Usedom
Stresow
Stralsund
Mecklenburg and Holstein-Gottorp
Gadebusch
2nd Tönning
Norway
Høland
Dynekilen
Fredriksten
Carolean Death March
Naval battles
Køge Bay
Fladstrand
Hogland
Gangut
Fehmarn
Rügen
Ösel
Grengam
Treaties
The siege of Fredriksten (Norwegian: Beleiringen av Fredriksten festning) was an attack on the Norwegian fortress of Fredriksten in the city of Fredrikshald (now Halden) by King Charles XII of Sweden. While inspecting his troops' lines, Charles XII was killed by a projectile. The Swedes broke off the siege, and the Norwegians held the fortress.[2] Along with the Treaty of Nystad three years later, the death of Charles XII marked the end of the imperial era in Sweden, and the beginning of the Age of Liberty (Swedish: Frihetstiden) in that country.[3][4]
^Lundblad (1835), p. 558
^"De svenske invasjonene av Norge i 1716 og 1718". University of Oslo. Retrieved June 1, 2017.
^Peter From. "Karl XII:s död - gåtans lösning". karlxii.se. Archived from the original on April 6, 2005. Retrieved November 1, 2018.
^Michael Roberts (1995) Sverige under frihetstiden (Stockholm: Prisma) ISBN 91-518-4106-1. Retrieved November 1, 2018
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