Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 1836-1907 · Boston, CT : Hall and Locke · leaf 202
d Lefort,who seem to have died within ayear of each other. These men wrere a great loss tothe tsar, but he soon showed thathe had now learned to stand alone.In 1700 he became involved in awar with Sweden. On the shoresof the Baltic lay certain provincesin the possession of Sweden, someof which had… … Gen. Patrick Gordon. 176 Leaders of Men saw an opportunity to recover the Baltic provinces,and thus to gain that connection with Western Europeon which all his hopes were set. He therefore formedan alliance with the King of Poland, who led an armyinto the province of Livonia, while the Russians…
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