Round 4: Tossup 7

Refugees displaced by this conflict spread an outbreak of plague that coincided with the most extreme of the Great Frosts. A plot by the ambassadors Erik Sparre (“spar”) and Karl Gyllenborg led to British intervention in this conflict. Hundreds of civilians (-5[1])were massacred during this conflict’s Murder Friday, part of the devastation of one province in the Great Wrath. A treaty signed during this conflict mandated the extradition of Johann (10[1])Reinhold (10[1])Patkul and the withdrawal of Augustus the Strong. (10[1])The losing side (10[1])in this conflict lost its exemption from the Sound Dues and the provinces of Ingria and Livonia. A Cossack (10[1])defection did not prevent one ruler from losing this conflict’s Battle of Poltava. (10[1])For 10 points, name this war in which Peter the Great led a coalition against Charles XII’s Sweden. ■END■

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