The country's main objective in the following decades was the recovery of its lost provinces from Sweden.

In the 1670s Denmark-Norway had regained enough strength to start a war with Sweden to recover its lost provinces.

Denmark now had no hope of recovering its lost provinces from Sweden.

If offered and accepted by the Alsatians, this solution would have deprived France of any reason to liberate the lost provinces.

The Danes made many attempts to regain the lost provinces.

Signatories from each country were dispatched to Tokyo to sign the treaty repatriating the lost provinces.

Thus began the Seven Years' War, which ultimately failed to bring the lost provinces back to Austria.

During that period the Cross served as a rallying point for French ambitions to recover its lost provinces.

The Commonwealth forces retrieved most of the lost provinces.

Twelve slabs are positioned in a circle, representing 12 lost provinces in present day Turkey.