The participation in this partition treaty threw England within the orbit of Russia, towards whom, since the days of the “Glorious Revolution,” [54] she had more and more gravitated. George I., as King of England, was bound to a
defensive alliance with Sweden by the treaty of 1700. Not only as King of England, but as Elector of Hanover, he was one of the guarantees, and even of the direct parties to the treaty of Travendahl,[55] which secured to Sweden what the partition treaty intended stripping her of. Even his German electoral dignity he partly owed to that treaty. However, as Elector of Hanover he declared war against Sweden, which he waged as King of England.