![]() ![]() The colony had expanded and prospered, albeit modestly, under the capable direction of Governor Johan Printz. The ‘New Sweden’ colony established in 1638 along the banks of the Delaware, in the present-day American states of New Jersey and Delaware, had failed shortly after Karl Gustav’s succession. Nor was Sweden able to maintain its tentative footholds outside Europe. But Sweden could not attain either of these goals the forces ranged against it were simply too great. If Denmark had succumbed to the post-Roskilde onslaught, it could have been incorporated into the Swedish empire if the war with Poland had ended favorably, the Swedish spoils in the south central Baltic rim would have included Royal Prussia at the very least. Had the plans of Karl X Gustav come to full fruition, they would have amounted to something bordering on a diplomatic revolution. ![]()
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