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Author : Angus Konstam
Release : 2005
Genre : Northern War, 1700-1721
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Book Synopsis Poltava, 1709 by : Angus Konstam
Download or read book Poltava, 1709 written by Angus Konstam. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alekseevich Moltusov Valery
Release : 2018-12-19
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Battle of Poltava 1709 by : Alekseevich Moltusov Valery
Download or read book The Battle of Poltava 1709 written by Alekseevich Moltusov Valery. This book was released on 2018-12-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on Swedish, Russian and Ukrainian source, this book presents a modern look at the pivotal battle of the Great Northern War. The uniqueness of the book is that it reveals the consistency and logic of the Russian army's actions. The book also provides a detailed historiography of the Battle of Poltava. The author reveals the secrets of military engineering art Russian and Swedish armies. For the first time, new evidence for the location and configuration of the fortification system on the battlefield is given, as well as new information on the actions of Russian artillery in battle is given. In addition, there is much information on the strength and composition of Russian troops аt different stages of the battle, as well as an examination of the participation in the battle of irregular military formations on both sides. The author's conclusions complement our understanding of the battle. Highly illustrated including specially-commissioned color artwork and maps, this is a major new account of one of the 18th century's most important battles.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Release : 2012
Genre : Poltava (Ukraine), Battle of, 1709
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Book Synopsis Poltava 1709 by : Serhii Plokhy
Download or read book Poltava 1709 written by Serhii Plokhy. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2009, the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute gathered scholars from around the globe and from various fields of study to mark the 300th anniversary of the Battle of Poltava. This collection of their papers provides a fresh look at this watershed event and sheds new light on the legacies of the battle's major players.
Author : Graham J Morris
Release : 2023-10-26
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Book Synopsis The Battle of Poltava by : Graham J Morris
Download or read book The Battle of Poltava written by Graham J Morris. This book was released on 2023-10-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Swedish Empire, although not comparable with the huge areas and populations that we today associate with such empires as Rome, the Mongols or the Russian and British, was a formidable force to be reckoned with during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Her rise to the imperium can be traced back to the middle of the sixteenth century when, along with Russia, Poland and Denmark, Sweden also took advantage of the vacuum in the Baltic created after the collapse of the Teutonic Knights. The power struggle that resulted netted Sweden Livonia from Poland, West Pomerania and some of East Pomerania, Bremen, Verden and Wismar. She acquired Halland, Jämtland, Härjedalen and the Gotland and Ösel islands from Denmark, together with Skåne, Bohuslän and Blekinge, while Russia ceded Ingria and Lexholm, which effectively cut her off from the Baltic Sea. The Battle of Poltava (8 July 1709) was the decisive and largest battle of the Great Northern War. A Russian army under the command of Tsar Peter I defeated a Swedish army, under the command of Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld. The battle put an end to the status of the Swedish Empire as a European great power, as well as its eastbound expansion, and marked the beginning of Russian hegemony in Northern Europe.
Author : Peter Englund
Release : 2013-04-15
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis The Battle That Shook Europe by : Peter Englund
Download or read book The Battle That Shook Europe written by Peter Englund. This book was released on 2013-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to march for Moscow. His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years. Swedish historian Peter Englund's vivid account of the three violent days of battle is an internationally acclaimed classic of military history, admired by scholars and the lay reader alike.
