Great Northern War | |||||||||
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Clockwise from top: Battle of Narva, Battle of Düna, Battle of Poltava, Battle of Gangut, Battle of Gadebusch |
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Belligerents | |||||||||
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Cossack Hetmanate (1708–09) |
Electorate of Saxony (1700–06, 1709–19) Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (1701–04, 1704–09, 1709–19) Denmark–Norway (1700, 1709–20) Kingdom of Prussia (1715–21) Electorate of Hanover (1715–19) Great Britain (1717–19) Moldavia (1711) |
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Charles XII † (–1718)
Frederick IV † (–1702) George I |
Augustus II
(personal union)
Ivan Mazepa (1700–08) George I
(personal union) |
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Strength | |||||||||
Initial force: : 24,000 : 130,000 : 4,000 |
Initial force: : 50,000 : 20,000 |
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Casualties and losses | |||||||||
About 200,000 Swedish: 25,000 killed in combat, 175,000 killed by famine, disease and exhaustion. |
Unknown. At least 75,000 Russians killed in combat. 14,000–20,000 Poles, Saxons and 8,000 Danes killed in the larger battles. 60,000 Danes dead in total between 1709–1719. |
Coalition victory:
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(1704–09)
Ottoman Empire
(1710–14)
Cossack Hetmanate (1708–09)
Great Britain
(1719–20)
Dutch Republic
(1700)