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many of the events in the war of the Emperor of Germany
against the Turks. After his return he taught Charles
XII. geometry, who thought so much of his teacher that
he appointed him to the honour of carrying his mantle at
the Coronation.
When the war against the Danes broke out, it was
Stuart who with great skill planned and effected the
landing in Seeland (1700). Protected by the fire from
the ships’ guns, five thousand men stood on Danish soil
within a few hours, and took the weak positions of the
enemy without much trouble. Unfortunately, Stuart was
wounded so severely in the thigh during the engagement
that he could not follow his King in his campaign against
Russia and Poland, but was appointed Governor of Curland,
in which position he skilfully defended the country
against its hostile neighbours.1
In the meantime the sudden appearance of the Swedes
in Denmark and their threat of laying siege to
Copenhagen had compelled the Danish Government to submit
to the terms of the peace of Travendahl, on the 8th of
August 1700, by which the Duke of Holstein-Gottorp,
who had been wantonly attacked by the Danes, was
reinstated in all his rights.
Now, having shaken off one of his enemies, Charles
XII. was free to turn to the others and inyade Finland,
where King Augustus was besieging Riga and the Czar
Narwa. Charles was well informed of the plans of the
two allied monarchs. We are told that a Scottish
nobleman in his train offered to procure him news
about the conference of the two rulers held at Birsen.
He went there under the pretence of being a Branden-
1 We read that he presented an image of St Nicholas, taken from
the Russians in 1703, to the Nicholas or Storkyrka in Stockholm (Det i
Flor Stående Stockholm, ii. 67).
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