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💬 Heyo! First post of 2023 and also since 6 months of no content from me, sorry about that btw aha had 0 motivation during that 😭
Anyways, the Great Northern War! I've been wanting to make an animation about this for months but never really had ideas how until now so yay :D
I'll be making more historical animations or just animation in general but since I'm going back to school again in a few days it'll take a long time to start making videos more again :'D

Okay, history time!! (please correct me if there are any mistakes, I would appreciate it very much and I'll edit the desc hehejjhe)

When the king of Sweden had passed and his 14 year old son inherited the crown to the Swedish Empire, their neighbours saw the opportunity to take this to their advantage, most especially Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania, and ToR who each had their own goals against Sweden. In the early years of the Great Northern War, Sweden managed to force Denmark-Norway and Poland-Lithuania out of the war. ToR, on the other hand, stayed in, despite suffering a great loss at the Battle of Narva. The Battle of Poltava, was extremely decisive. The Swedish forces were defeated and fled to the Ottoman Empire, staying in for five years. Poland-Lithuania and Denmark-Norway re-entered the war during this time and a new anti-swedish coalition formed. The war continued on for another twelve years after Poltava up until the Swedish king was shot during his siege of the Danish fortress of Fredriksten (interestingly, it is unknown whether who shot him was an enemy or not) and thus Sweden was forced into peace.
This had marked the end of the Swedish Empire.

Since the territories that used to be owned by the Tsardom of Russia were ceded to Sweden as a result of the Treaty of Stolvobo (ended the Ingrian war), tensions rose between the two as ToR needed to gain access on the baltic ports. Denmark-Norway resented it's loss of their provinces to the Swedish Empire and longed to get them back, most especially the province of Skåne (Scania) in the southern part of Sweden. The Polish-Lithuanian king, Augustus (elector of Saxony), had ambitions to become a hereditary monarch to rule over Poland-Lithuania, much like other monarchs in Europe at the time. The three then organised an anti-swedish coalition.

00:26-00:27 : Refers to after Denmark-Norway attacked Holstein-Gottorp (Swedish empire's ally), they got bombarded by the Swedish fleets along with Anglo-dutch ones. Denmark-Norway withdrew from the anti-swedish alliance as a result of signing the treaty of Travendal (August 1700)

00:31-00:33 : „You can be our ruler if you free us from Sweden!" quite self-explanatory, the nobles of Livonia offered the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth that if they liberated them from the Swedish Empire, Livonia would declare them as their king. Sweden spent six years fighting Poland-Lithuania and after the Swedes invaded Saxony, is when they left the alliance in the treaty of Altranstädt (September 1706).

00:37-00:38 : The Battle of Narva, where Swedish troops defeated a Russian siege force much larger compared to their size during a blizzard, panicked Russians troops ran to a bridge on the Narva river but it collapsed.

00:42-00:44 : ok there's a lot going on here but this was when the Swedish Empire was devastatingtly defeated in the battle of Poltava and fled to the Ottoman Empire, the 2nd scene is a bit lighthearted with the „'war1! 1!1!' 'bro no" thing but yeah before that was the Pruth River Campaign or Russo-Ottoman War of 1710—1711 which was a brief military conflict between the Tsardom of Russia and the Ottoman Empire since O.E declined ToR's demands for Sweden to leave.
After days of fighting ToR was allowed to withdraw back after agreeing to abandon the fortress of Azov and its surrounding territory. The Ottoman victory led to the Treaty of the Pruth which was confirmed by the Treaty of Adrianople which would keep the peace for 25 years (much to the Swedish Empire's disappointment). Third scene is when the Anti-Swedish coaltion forms again and bam Swedish Empire meets their impending doom.

There's a lot more I would've like to add in the video but no space so yeah 😭
I hope you enjoyed watching!!! and happy new year btw lol :))

✧-̗̀➛ Character/Country(s)
- Swedish Empire (Sweden)
- Denmark-Norway
- Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
- Tsardom of Russia
- Holstein-Gottorp
- Ottoman Empire
- England
- Dutch Republic
- Livonia

✧-̗̀➛ Apps used
- Alight Motion
- Capcut

[Time taken: idk weeks? ]
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