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Updated: May 2, 2025

King Frederick had reckoned without the powers which had guaranteed the recent Treaty of Altona, by which the safety of Holstein was insured; without the Hanoverian troops, and those of Luneburg, which at once brought succor to Toeningen; without the Anglo-Dutch fleet, which forced his to seek shelter under the walls of Copenhagen, and thus permitted the King of Sweden to cross the Sound unmolested, and land quietly in Zealand; and finally, he reckoned and for this he may well be excused without that which was soon to fill all Europe with terror and amazement: the lucky star and the military genius of Charles XII.

- The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 12