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Major conflict1700

Battle of Narva (1700)

Narva · Swedish Estonia

Estimated casualties

9.0K – 18Kestimated dead

Russian losses heavy: ~9,000-18,000 killed, wounded or captured; Swedish ~600-2,000. Estimates vary.

SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter

On 30 November 1700 a small Swedish army under Charles XII routed a much larger Russian force besieging Narva during a snowstorm, an early, spectacular Swedish victory in the Great Northern War.

Belligerents2

  • Sweden
  • Russia

ON THE MAPSwedish EmpireRussia (Tsardom, later Empire)

Sources

  1. Wikipedia: Battle of Narva (1700)
  2. Clodfelter, Warfare and Armed Conflicts (4th ed., 2017)
  3. Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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