The real lesson is don’t invade Norway.
Northern Europe is suffering from state breakdown or the consolidation of absolute monarchy. This happens in the United Provinces, Denmark, and Sweden. But the big event is France where Louis XIV continues the work of his father driving central state control down to the local level, justifying the process with propaganda of the universal dominion of France. In this context is it so surprising that James II would give it a try as well?
Goodbye James Stuart, hello William and Mary.
Meanwhile John Locke has developed the central tenet of social revolutionaries and set it free into the world.