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.

In the Great Northern War (1700–1721) a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. [17] The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter I of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony–Poland–Lithuania.

Battle of Poltava, (June 27 [July 8, New Style], 1709), the decisive victory of Peter I the Great of Russia over Charles XII of Sweden in the Great Northern War. The battle ended Sweden’s status as a major power and marked the beginning of Russian supremacy in eastern Europe.

The Battle of Malplaquet took place on 11 September 1709 during the War of the Spanish Succession, near Taisnières-sur-Hon in modern France, then part of the Spanish Netherlands. A French army of around 75,000 men, commanded by the Duke of Villars , engaged a Grand Alliance force of 86,000 under the Duke of Marlborough .

On the morning of 27 June 1709, two armies faced each other in the fields near the Ukrainian city of Poltava. One was led by the young and ambitious king of Sweden, Charles XII, the other by the not so young but no less ambitious tsar of Muscovy, Peter I.

2020年6月23日 · The result was the Battle of Poltava (27 June 1709), one of the major turning points in European history – and, indeed, in world history. When news of it reached London, the novelist and leading man of letters, Daniel Defoe, described it as ‘an army of veterans defeated by a mob, a crowd, a mere militia; an army of the bravest fellows in ...

2023年11月2日 · The Battle of Poltava (modern-day Ukraine) in 1709 was a decisive battle in the Great Northern War. Charles XII was confident in his ability to defeat Russia, and Peter was ready to win this war. Charles XII had decided that he wanted to take the town of Poltava, a small town on the bank of the Vorskla River.

2015年8月19日 · Russia’s victory at Poltava (1709) led to the fall of the Swedish empire in northern Europe. Casualty rates in the battles of this period were formidable. At Poltava the Swedes suffered terrible casualties, as their attack on well-defended Russian posit ions exposed them to superior forces and artillery.

2025年3月13日 · Stephen Roberts analyses the battle that established Russia as a major European power. The Great Northern War saw Peter’s opponent Charles XII of Sweden mustering immediate forces of more than 30,000 – and the Swedish king was confident, maybe overconfident, that he could deal with anything the Russians offered.

After an extremely severe and exhausting winter the Swedish army reached Poltava in the beginning of April 1709. Here the decisive battle of the Great Northern War took place on June 27, 1709. The Swedish army suffered a crushing defeat and lost about 6900 dead and wounded.