Crossword-Solution: STRALSUND 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

The bullets bit on bend and butt, the splinter slivered free (Little they trust to sparrow-dust that stop the seal in his sea!), The thick smoke hung and would not shift, leaden it lay and blue, But three were down on the _Baltic_'s deck and two of the _Stralsund_'s crew.

Ever in Yokohama port men tell the tale anew Of a hidden sea and a hidden fight, When the _Baltic_ ran from the _Northern Light_ And the _Stralsund_ fought the two.

The independence of Stralsund, as securing the free navigation of the Baltic, was equally important to the two Northern kings.

Stralsund, open to the sea, continued to be supplied with provisions and reinforcements; yet Wallenstein maintained his blockade on the land side, and endeavoured, by boasting menaces, to supply his want of real strength.

The necessity to which he reduced the town of applying for protection to Sweden, laid the foundation of a close alliance between Gustavus Adolphus and Stralsund, which greatly facilitated the entrance of the Swedes into Germany.