Topic: What makes a player a great General?

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Wasn't it during this period that Finland was annexed from Sweden? 

That was in 1809 and in fact part of the Coalition Wars. The Vienna Congress confirmed Russia's gains.

[Mathi Alfblut]

As RGB points out, that was 200 years later roughly.
I shall check my litterature, but De la Gardie took Moscow in the early 1600:eds. Russia took Finland in the war of 1808-1809 and really took away the last remants of Swedens days as a strong power in the region. Sweden lost more than a third of its total land, and it lost some of the hardest units in the army.

[Nicholas Bies]

ah my mistake I had my Tsar's mixed up. It was Alexander I. He was a pretty nifty Tsar as well. Too bad he was an accomplice in the assassination of his father- the francophile Paul I. Or Paul II can never remember.

Wish a Catherine the Great type personality existed today.

Actually theres a fun series of books where the Russian Revolution failed but the Romanov's lost power to another family. The Russian Empire rules the world but follows a theif/romanov outcast. First book is called "From Russia with Lust" I find it fun to read =)

Then again I find the same authors work on Vampire on the Eastern Front to be fun as well...

BTW. Louis Davot > Napoleon.