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Carolus Rex (English Version) All rights go to Nuclear Blast and Sabaton. Carolus Rex is the Latin name of Charles XII (1682-1718), King of Sweden from 1697 to 1718. In 1700 (only a few years after his coronation at the age of 15) Sweden was attacked by Denmark, Saxe-Poland and Russia, starting the Great Northern War. The young king was able to bring Denmark temporarily to its knees by besieging Copenhagen. With an army of about ten thousand men he defeated the much larger Russian army at the Battle of Narva. Charles XII occupied Warsaw and the old royal Polish city of Krakow in 1702. In 1706 he was able to end the personal union of Saxe-Poland with several vitories over Augustus II. By 1708 the only remaining enemy was Tsar Peter the Great. After a failed attempt to attack Moscow, Charles suffered a decisive defeat against the Tsardom of Russia at the Battle of Poltava. He was thus forced to flee to the Ottoman Empire. In 1714 he returned to Swedish Pomer
