ON NEW SWEDEN: A brief history of Sweden's ill-fated foray into colonizing the new world between 1637-1654

From: Nordic Reach | Date: July 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The 17th century saw Sweden's brief turn as a European "superpower" and one of the Continent's major military and political combatants during the Thirty Years' War. By mid-century, Sweden's borders included part of Norway and all of Finland, and stretched into Russia. Sweden's control of portions of modern Poland, Lawia, Estonia, Lithuania and Germany made the Baltic Sea essentially a Swedish lake, as someone once put it.

Perhaps inspired by the riches its rival nations garnered from overseas colonies, Sweden, too, sought to extend its reach to the New World. In 1637, Swedish, Dutch and ...

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