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310 A History of Sweden
Vesterbotten to the rivers Muonio and TorneL This
was the hardest treaty Sweden ever concluded. By it
she lost more than one-third of her territory, Sweden
and Finland were thus severed after a union of five
hundred years. From Sweden Finland had received
her religion, her social order, her culture, in one word,
European civilization. Under the great tsar Finland
was now to experience the "blessing" which the trai-
tors had pictured to her people a "blessing" from
which the great majority of her people had by all
means sought to be delivered,
Treaties with Denmark and France. Shortly after
the treaty with Russia, Sweden concluded a treaty with
Denmark (in Jonkoping, December 10, 1809) and with
France (in Paris, January 6, 1810). In both cases
Sweden sustained no loss of territory. When these
treaties were concluded Gustavus IV Adolphus was no
longer king.
D. DEPOSITION OP GUSTAVUS IV ADOLPHUS
Catling Out the National Militia. While Gustavus
IV left the Finnish forces to fight their battles alone,
he was demonstrating his total unfitness in other mili-
tary fields. For defense against the Denmark-Norway
attacks the Swedish army was re-enforced by a na-
tional militia (Lantvarn) , composed of unmarried men
between the ages of 19 and 25. Willingly these young
men hastened to the standards. But here, too, all hopes
were to meet with cruel disappointment. Most of the
young soldiers were never to meet the enemy. Poorly
equipped and provisioned, they perished in large
masses from hunger and exposure. Disease raged un-
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