✦ History

Part of Swedish invasion of Russia

Battle of Lesnaya

October 9, 1708 · Lyasnaya, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Result Russian victory

Peter I's Russian army attacked Lewenhaupt's Swedish corps in present-day Belarus and won.

On the map Contemporaries

Sweden

Tsardom of Russia

Sweden
Tsardom of Russia
Cossack Hetmanate
Kalmyk Khanate
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt military commander Berndt Otto Stackelberg military commander
Peter the Great military commander Alexander Danilovich Menshikov military commander Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn military commander