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To: blam

Wow. The Swedes used to fight?


13 posted on 07/31/2007 3:51:25 PM PDT by yooper (If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there......)
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Did they ever. Check out Gustavus Adolphus.
15 posted on 07/31/2007 3:57:06 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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Sweden actually has one of the most advanced militaries in the world, and has a decent amount of soldiers due to conscription. It is a neutral country, but that is not the same as pacifist.


17 posted on 07/31/2007 4:47:53 PM PDT by Jedi Master Pikachu ( What is your take on Acts 15:20 (abstaining from blood) about eating meat? Could you freepmail?)
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The Swedes were a major powerin Northern and Central Europe from the Thirty Years War [Gustavus Adolfus] through Charles XII’s defeat at Poltava at the hands of Peter the Great


33 posted on 07/31/2007 11:30:02 PM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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