Ka cika wannan jumla: Wannan yaƙin ya fara ne sa'ad da Faransa ta matsa wa abokinta na Sweden ya kai wa abokin hamayyarta Brandenburg-Prussia hari a shekara ta 1674. Wannan yunkuri, kodayake an yi shi da zuciya ɗaya, ya yi nasarar janye babban rundunar Brandenburg-Prussian daga iyakar Faransa don fuskantar Sweden. Farashin da Sweden ta biya don sauƙaƙe matsin lamba na Brandenburgian akan Faransa shine jerin batutuwan da aka rasa daga
Fehrbellin zuwa Stralsund, wanda ya kori Sweden daga mulkinta na Pomeranian. Bugu da ƙari, harin da Sweden ta kai kan Brandenburg ya sa Denmark-Norway, kamar Brandenburg-Prussian memba ne na ƙungiyar adawa da Faransa, don shiga yaƙin.