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Brewer's: Alexander of the North
Charles XII of Sweden, so called from his military achievements. He was conquered at Pultowa, in Russia (1709), by Czar Peter the Great (1682–1718).
Repressing here The frantic Alexander of the North.
Thomson: Winter.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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