Great Northren War
Great Northren War | |||||||||
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Clockwise frae tap: Battle o Narva, Battle o Düna, Battle o Poltava, Battle o Gangut, Battle o Gadebusch | |||||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Pols–Lithuanie Commonweel Cossack Hetmanate (1708–09) |
Electorate o Saxony (1700–06, 1709–19) Pols–Lithuanie Commonweel (1701–04, 1704–09, 1709–19) Denmark–Norawa (1700, 1709–20) Kinrick o Proushie (1715–21) Electorate o Hanover (1715–19) Great Breetain (1717–19) Moldavia (1711) | ||||||||
Commanders an leaders | |||||||||
Charles XII † (–1718)
Frederick IV † (–1702) George I |
Augustus II
(personal union)
Ivan Mazepa (1700–08) George I (personal union) | ||||||||
Strenth | |||||||||
Initial force: : 24,000[4] : 130,000[5] : 4,000[6] |
Initial force: : 50,000 : 20,000[11] | ||||||||
Casualties an losses | |||||||||
Aboot 200,000 Swadish: 25,000 killt in combat, 175,000 killt bi faimin, disease an exhaustion.[12] |
Unkent. Leastweys 75,000 Roushies killt in combat. 14,000–20,000 Poles, Saxons an 8,000 Danes killt in the lairger battles. 60,000 Danes in tot atween 1709–1719.[13] |
The Great Northren War (1700–1721) wis a war whaur a coaleetion led bi the Tsardom o Roushie kempit wi the supremacy o the Swadish Empire wi sonse, in Middlins, Northren, an Eastlin Europe. The initial heid anes o the anti-Swadish alliance war Peter the Great o Roushie, Frederick IV o Denmark–Norawa an Augustus II the Strang o Saxony-Poland. Frederick IV an Augustus II war forced oot o the alliance in 1700 an 1706 respectively, but rejyned it in 1709. George I o Brunswick-Lüneburg (Hanover) jyned the coaleetion in 1714 for Hanover an in 1717 for Breetain, an Frederick William I o Brandenburg-Proushie jyned it in 1715.
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ Olle Larsson, Stormaktens sista krig (2009) Lund, Historiska Media. p. 78. ISBN 978-91-85873-59-3
- ↑ Bengt Liljegren (2000). Karl XII: En biografi. Lund: Historiska media
- ↑ a b Ericson, Sjöslag och rysshärjningar (2011) Stockholm, Norstedts. p. 55. ISBN 978-91-1-303042-5
- ↑ Peter From, Katastrofen vid Poltava (2007) Lund, Historiska media. pp. 214.
- ↑ A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya, David R. Stone. Greenwood Publishing Group (2006). pp. 57.
- ↑ Peter From, Katastrofen vid Poltava (2007) Lund, Historiska media. pp. 240.
- ↑ a b Boris Grigorjev & Aleksandr Bespalov (2012). Kampen mot övermakten. Baltikums fall 1700-1710. pp. 52
- ↑ Lars-Eric Höglund, Åke Sallnäs, The Great Northern War 1700 - 1721, II. p 51.
- ↑ Józef Andrzej Gierowski – Historia Polski 1505–1764 (History of Poland 1505–1764), pp. 258–261
- ↑ "Tacitus.nu, Örjan Martinsson. Danish force". Tacitus.nu. Archived frae the original on 13 October 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2014.
- ↑ Lars-Eric Höglund, Åke Sallnäs, The Great Northern War 1700 - 1721, II. p 132.
- ↑ Ericson, Lars, Svenska knektar (2004) Lund: Historiska media[page needit]
- ↑ Lindegren, Jan, Det danska och svenska resurssystemet i komparation (1995) Umeå : Björkås : Mitthögsk[page needit]
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