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To: decimon; SunkenCiv
According to Wiki, the Svardot was set on fire by a fire ship. This painting shows the Swedish flagship exploding after it foundered at the outset of the battle. Svardot is shown surrounded by allied ships.

The flagship, Kronen, was the largest ship in the Swedish navy at the time and was armed with 126 guns. So, the story of "hundreds" of cannon is in doubt, unless they were counting cannon from other sunk ships. According to Wiki the Swedes lost five ships to sinking while the allies only lost the one ship they fired.


14 posted on 11/18/2011 2:25:42 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

Thanks colorado tanker.


15 posted on 11/18/2011 7:37:25 PM PST by SunkenCiv (It's never a bad time to FReep this link -- https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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