Perhaps this contemporary view of the Old City of Tallinn, Estonia, looks a little like what the Danes saw in 1227 AD, when they sailed to the eastern end of the Baltic Sea with invasion on their minds. Although Tallinn was walled, fortified, and high on a hill, the Danes managed to conquer it. So did the Germans, and then the Swedes, and eventually the Nazis and the Soviets. In 1991, after 764 years of almost constant subjugation, the Estonians won their independence.
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