Charles XII's exile in the Ottoman Empire
1709–1714 · Event
Fleeing Poltava to Bender, Charles talks the Sultan into war with Russia, fights off Turkish troops in the 'kalabalik' of 1713, then rides home to Stralsund across Europe in fifteen days.
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