Episode 118: The Carolean death march

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4.2 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Feeling hot this summer? It could be worse. In January of 1719 during the Great Northern War, six thousand troops from the Swedish army began what should have been a two-day walk back over the Norwegian border to their own empire, mentally and physically exhausted from a four-month-long losing battle. But then the snow came, and what was supposed to be a two-day hike turned into a week-long nightmare.

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