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FREDERICKSHALL

Volume 9 · 50 words · 1815 Edition

or FREDERICKSTADT, a strong town of Norway, in the prefecture of Agerhuys, where Charles XII. king of Sweden was killed by a musket ball in 1718, when he was besieging this town. It is seated on the coast of the Categate, in E. Long. 10. 45. N. Lat. 59. 2.