The '''Great Northern War''' was a conflict in the early 1700's 1700s between the "Northern Alliance"—Russia, [[Denmark]], [[Norway]], [[Lithuania]], [[Poland]] and Saxony—and [[Sweden]] for supremacy in the [[Baltic Sea]]. Russia's ascension to becoming a respected and feared European power and Sweden's defeat, in which it lost the majority of its colonies and its respect as an a European power, are results that came from it.
The death toll of the Sweden was about 25,000 in combat and 175,000 in other ways; among the Northern Alliance 120,000 were combat casualties and many more perished from such as famine.