✦ History

Part of Swedish invasion of Russia

Battle of Poltava

July 8, 1709 · Poltava, Cossack Hetmanate ( Ukraine)

Result Russian victory

Tsar Peter I's Russian army defeated the invading Swedish army at Poltava in Ukraine, the decisive battle of the Great Northern War.

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Sweden

Tsardom of Russia

Sweden
Cossack Hetmanate
Tsardom of Russia
Kalmyk Khanate
Charles XII of Sweden military commander Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld military commander Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt military commander Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach military commander
Peter the Great military commander Alexander Danilovich Menshikov military commander Boris Sheremetev military commander

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