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The Rise of the Great Powers 1648–1815 (1983) pp 77–93. Moulton, James R. Peter the Great and the Russian Military Campaigns During the Final Years of the Great Northern War, 1719–1721 (University Press of America, 2005). Oakley, Stewart P. War and Peace in the Baltic, 1560–1790 (Routledge, 2005). Sumner, B. H. (1951).
The Battle of Poltava [j] took place 8 July 1709, [k] was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. The Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated the Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld.
Battle of Rauge – 1701 – Great Northern War (Northern Wars) Battle of Erastfer – 1702 – Great Northern War (Northern Wars) Battle of Hummelshof – 1702 – Great Northern War (Northern Wars) Battle of Wesenberg (1704) – 1704 – Great Northern War (Northern Wars) Siege of Narva (1704) – 1704 – Great Northern War (Northern Wars)
The Great Northern War is generally considered to have concluded the Northern Wars with the decline of Sweden and establishment of the Russian Empire as the principal power of the region, however there are different scholarly opinions on which war constitutes the First Northern War and an internationally agreed-on nomenclature for these wars ...
George I of Great Britain led Great Britain and Prussia into war against Sweden, and Denmark reentered the war. Russia maintained its conquered possessions in Ingria and the Baltic, was able to consolidate its hold over Ukraine and Poland, develop the new city of Saint Petersburg , and gain vital trade links in the Baltic trade.
By 1700, the Swedish Empire was the dominant power in Northern Europe, controlling territory from Norway to modern-day St Petersburg. But in this war, it was attacked from all sides by several countries: Denmark–Norway to the west, the Tsardom of Russia in the east, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to the southeast, and the Electorate of ...
The Battle of Lesnaya [i] was one of the major battles of the Great Northern War.It took place on October 9 [O.S. September 28] 1708 [j] between a Russian army of between 17,000 and 29,000 men commanded by Peter I of Russia, Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, Rudolph Felix Bauer and Nikolai Grigorovitj von Werden and a Swedish army between 12,500 and 16,000 men ...
Norway during the Great Northern War; P. Surrender at Perevolochna; Swedish invasion of Poland (1701–1706) R. Russian Pillage of 1719–1721; S. Swedish invasion of ...