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History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia
Volume IV. (of XXI.)

CHAPTER VI
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Stettin and quiet are all he dreams of demanding there.
Stralsund he did not reckon his; left it with the Danes, to hold in pawn till some general Treaty.

Nor was there farther outbreak of war in those regions; though actual Treaty of Peace did not come till 1720, and make matters sure.

It was the new Queen of Sweden, Ulrique Eleonora (Charles's younger Sister, wedded to the young Landgraf of Hessen-Cassel),--much aided by an English Envoy,--who made this Peace with Friedrich Wilhelm.

A young English Envoy, called Lord Carteret, was very helpful in this matter; one of his first feats in the diplomatic world.

For which Peace, [Stockholm, 21st January, 1720: in Mauvillon (i.


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