Monday, November 13, 2006

The history about Kong Karl Johan

Karl Johan was born in france. he did a military career. that brought him to fight under napoleon. in this time in sweden the king was set down by lieutenants because he lost the war against russia and finland. his childless brother was elected as the new king. because he was childless he adopted a norvegian revolutionair as crownprince. but this guy died soon after getting to sweden. so the french revolutionair called Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte was elected as the new crownprince. he did a good job in the war, this time against napoleon, and so he got as a gift a part of norway. with norway he attacked denmark to get norway independent of denmark. finally after a discussion round norway was under Karl Johan in a swedish norvegian union. Karl Johan was in "service" from 1818-1844. (1905 norway finally got independent)

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