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Battle of Poltava

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Poltava · Cossack Hetmanate · Ukraine

Estimated casualties

8.0K – 12Kestimated dead

Swedish ~6,900-9,200 killed/wounded plus ~2,800 captured; Russian ~1,300 killed and ~3,300 wounded. Combined casualties commonly ~8,000-12,000.

SOURCEWikipedia / Clodfelter

On 8 July 1709 Tsar Peter I's Russian army decisively defeated the invading Swedish army of Charles XII near Poltava, the turning point of the Great Northern War that ended Sweden's status as a great power and began Russian ascendancy.

Belligerents2

Russia
Sweden

ON THE MAPRussia (Tsardom, later Empire)Swedish Empire

Sources

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

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Cite as: Battle of Poltava (1709). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-poltava · Sources & methodology