Sweden (Mink's World)

Swedish Empire 1745 (Minks World)
Sweden wins the great north war against Polish Lithuania and Denmark this leads to a large northern country sending out ships for colonies. In the 18th and 19th century Sweden becomes a north powerhouse.

Sweden colonial policy
due to Sweden becoming a north powerhouse they can afford expeditions to the new world. Sweden is very rich this leads to many Swedish deals with Britain and France. By the late 18th century Sweden has colonies almost all over the world most of this is in northern Canada. Sweden bought Quebec from France and new England from Britain.

Relations with Russia
Russia has foreign claims in Finland. this is leading to intense relations with the 2 of them. in late 1760 border raids kicked off. the 2 did not want to officially declare because they both know it would be a very costly war

Russian border conflicts
when the border conflicts started the Russian tsar at the time asked king Charles to call off his troops and the Russian tsar would too both decided to move the troops back and dig in. both sides did this assuming they are at war. these border conflicts will last to 1810 when the last one ended in the Swedish king calling a cease fire. over the years of the border conflicts killed somewhere from 1,000-7,650 people.