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Battle of Kliszów

Battle of Kliszów
Part of the Great Northern War
Battle of Kliszów.png
Contemporary drawing of the battle of Kliszów
Date
Location South of Kielce, Poland
Result Swedish victory
Belligerents
Naval Ensign of Sweden.svg Swedish Empire  Saxony
Chorągiew królewska króla Zygmunta III Wazy.svgPolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Commanders and leaders
Charles XII
Frederick IV of Gottorp  
Rehnskiöld
Vellingk
Liewen
Augustus II
Steinau
Schulenburg
Flemming
Lubomirski
Strength

12,000:

8,000 foot,
4,000 horse,
4 three-pounder guns

24,000:

7,500 Saxon foot,
9,000 Saxon horse,
46 artillery pieces
660 Polish foot,
6,640 Polish horse,
4 or 5 cannon
Casualties and losses

1,100:

300 killed,
800 wounded

4,400:

1,800 killed,
900 wounded,
1,700 captured

12,000:

24,000:

1,100:

4,400:

The Battle of Kliszów (Klissow) (Klezow) took place on July 8 (Julian calendar) / July 9 (Swedish calendar) / July 19, 1702 (Gregorian calendar) near Kliszów, Poland-Lithuania, during the Great Northern War. The numerically superior Polish-Saxon army of August II the Strong, operating from an advantageous defensive position, was defeated by a Swedish army half its size under the command of King Charles XII.

August the Strong, Elector of Saxony, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, had in 1699 planned a three-fold attack on the Swedish Empire together with Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia and Frederik IV of Denmark-Norway. The plan failed when Frederik was forced out of the war in 1700, after the Swedish landing on Humlebæk.Charles XII of Sweden in the same year, defeated the Russian army in the battle of Narva. After Narva, Charles XII evicted August the Strong's forces from Swedish Livonia through the battle of Düna and pursued him into the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Charles occupied an undefended Warsaw on 14 May 1702 and marched west.


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