General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . F R E C 231 ) FRE confirmed. He preserved a neutrality with re-spect to the war then subsisting among theNorthern Powers till after the return of CharlesXII. ; when that monarch not agreeing to theproposal of his forbearing to carry his arms intoPoland or Saxony, the king of Prussia in 17 15declared war against him. Joining his forcesto those of Denmark, he took Stralsund. Noother action of consequence- followed ; and
General biography; or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most eminent persons of all ages, countries, conditions, and professions, arranged according to alphabetical order . F R E C 231 ) FRE confirmed. He preserved a neutrality with re-spect to the war then subsisting among theNorthern Powers till after the return of CharlesXII. ; when that monarch not agreeing to theproposal of his forbearing to carry his arms intoPoland or Saxony, the king of Prussia in 17 15declared war against him. Joining his forcesto those of Denmark, he took Stralsund. Noother action of consequence- followed ; and afterthe death of Charles XII. peace was restoredbetween the two crowns. He interfered withspirit and effect in favour of the Protestants ofsome neighbouring countries who were oppress-ed and ill-treated by their catholic sovereigns;and particularly interested himself in the atroci-ous affair of Thorn. A dispute occasioned bythe conduct of his enlisting-parties in Hanoverproduced a violent quarrel between him and hisbrother-in-law George II. (between whom andhimself a mutual antipathy prevailed from theirinfancy), which brought on a challenge to singlecombat between the
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