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Title
Glorious Victory at Lesnaya
Description
Battle of Lesnaya
Subject
Source
Publisher
Date
1708-09-28
Scenario#
A107
Location
Lesnaya, Belarus
Battle Name
Battle Narrative
The Battle of Lesnaya was one of the major battles of the Great Northern War. It took place on October 9 [O.S. September 28] 1708 between a Russian army of between 26,500 and 29,000 men commanded by Peter I of Russia, Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, Christian Felix Bauer and Nikolai Grigorovitj von Werden and a Swedish army of about 12,500 men commanded by Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt and Berndt Otto Stackelberg, at the village of Lesnaya, located close to the border between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Russia (now the village of Lyasnaya, south-east of Mogilev in Belarus). The Swedes were escorting a supply column of more than 4,500 wagons for their main army in Ukraine.
Narrative Source
Wikipedia: Battle of Lesnaya
External Link
Combatants
Swedish Empire
Russia
Additional Information
Great Northern War
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