There, under protection of the Russian battlefleet, the Russian galley fleet was split into three groups. It was only on 12 May that Swedish squadron under Admiral Erik Johan Lillie made it to Helsinki but there was nothing it could do. In search for allies, Charles XII also negotiated with the British Jacobite party. Charles remained there until December 1715, escaping only days before Stralsund fell. However, like so often, Swedish naval units arrived only after the initial Russian spring campaign had ended. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter the Great of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony-Poland-Lithuania. After the setbacks of 1700, he focused on transforming his state, an absolute monarchy, in a manner similar to Charles XI of Sweden. The Nyen fortress was soon abandoned and demolished by Peter, who built nearby a superior fortress as a beginning to the city of Saint Petersburg. [18] Simultaneously, Augustus II's forces advanced through Swedish Livonia, captured Dünamünde and laid siege to Riga. Peter the Great became Tsar in 1682 upon the death of his elder brother Feodor but did not become the actual ruler until 1689. After the dissolution of the first coalition through the peace of Travendal and with the victory at Narva; the Swedish chancellor, Benedict Oxenstjerna, attempted to use the bidding for the favour of Sweden by France and the Maritime Powers (then on the eve of the War of the Spanish Succession)[16] to end the war and make Charles an arbiter of Europe. 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The defenders, however, managed to fend off landing attempts by the attackers until the Russians landed at their flank at Sandviken, which forced Armfelt to retire towards Porvoo (Borgå) after setting afire both the town and all the supplies stored there as well as bridges leading north from the town. The Ottoman Empire temporarily hosted Charles XII of Sweden and intervened against Peter I. compiled by John Sloan To understand the antecedents of the Great Northern War one must go back a considerable way in Swedish- Muscovite relations, and also factor in the relations both had with Poland over some centuries. The remaining Swedish forces in plague-stricken areas south and east of the Baltic Sea were evicted, with the last city, Riga, falling in 1710. The coalition members partitioned most of the Swedish dominions among themselves, destroying the Swedish dominium maris baltici. By these treaties Sweden ceded her exemption from the Sound Dues[16] and lost the Baltic provinces and the southern part of Swedish Pomerania. The Great Northern War was a profound event in European history and has had far too little attention in the English speaking world. Beside Peter, the principal Russian commanders were Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and Boris Sheremetev. [52], Saxe-Poland-Lithuania and Sweden did not conclude a formal peace treaty; instead, they renewed the Peace of Oliva that had ended the Second Northern War in 1660.[54]. This successful invasion enabled Charles XII to dethrone Augustus II and coerce the Polish sejm to replace him with Stanisław I Leszczyński in 1704. After Poltava, the anti-Swedish coalition revived and subsequently Hanover and Prussia joined it. During the war, the most important Swedish commanders besides Charles XII were his close friend Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld, also Magnus Stenbock and Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt. B When peace was concluded with Denmark, the anti-Swedish coalition had already fallen apart, and Denmark was not in a military position to negotiate a return of her former eastern provinces across the sound. In view of continued failure to check Russian consolidation, and with declining manpower, Sweden opted to blockade Saint Petersburg in 1705. To place pressure on Sweden, Russia sent a large fleet to the Swedish east coast in July 1719. One group headed for the coast of Uppland, the second to the vicinity of Stockholm, and the last to coast of Södermanland. The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Hanover gained Bremen-Verden, Brandenburg-Prussia incorporated the Oder estuary (Stettin Lagoons), Russia secured the Baltic Provinces, and Denmark strengthened her position in Schleswig-Holstein. The Great Northern War was a series of battles fought to contest the Supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern and Central Europe. The Norwegian campaigns were halted and the army withdrawn when Charles XII was shot dead while besieging Norwegian Fredriksten on 30 November 1718 (OS). We want you to be aware of our community posting guidelines so that we can have high-quality conversations: https://goo.gl/HkzwQh__________Talk to us on Twitter (@ExtraCreditz): http://bit.ly/ECTweetFollow us on Facebook: http://bit.ly/ECFBPageGet our list of recommended games on Steam: http://bit.ly/ECCurator____________♪ Get the intro music here!http://bit.ly/1EQA5N7 *Music by Demetori: http://bit.ly/1AaJG4H♫ Get the background music here!The Land of Vana'diel (Album): http://bit.ly/1t2OT9L *Music by Tweex♪ Get the outro music here!http://bit.ly/23isQfx *Music by Sean and Dean Kiner: http://bit.ly/1WdBhnm In the summer of 1706, Swedish General Georg Johan Maidel crossed the Neva with 4,000 troops and defeated an opposing Russian force, but made no move on Saint Petersburg. Russia gained its Baltic territories and became one of the greatest powers in Europe. In the Treaty of Hanover (1710), Hanover, whose elector was to become George I of Great Britain, allied with Russia. The armies met again later at Napue in February 1714, where the Russians won a decisive victory. Sweden defeated the Danish invaders at the Battle of Helsingborg (1710). In 1697, Sweden was a great power until Charles XI died; he left the entire empire in the hands of his 14-year-old son, Charles XII. [19], Charles XII of Sweden first focused on attacking Denmark. The cost of the warfare proved to be much higher than the occupied countries could fund, and Sweden's coffers and resources in manpower were eventually drained in the course of long conflicts. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and … This resulted in Great Britain declaring war on Sweden in 1717. Russia was able to mobilize a larger army but could not put all of it into action simultaneously. Frederik IV of Denmark–Norway directed his first attack against Sweden's ally Holstein-Gottorp. George I of Great Britain and the Electorate of Hanover joined the coalition in 1714 for Hanover and in 1717 for Britain, and Frederick William I of Brandenburg-Prussia joined it in 1715. See more ideas about war, northern, swedish army. Sweden proper was invaded from the west by Denmark–Norway and from the east by Russia, which had occupied Finland by 1714. Despite a continued Swedish naval presence and strong patrols to protect the coast, small Russian raids took place in 1716 at Öregrund, while in July 1717 a Russian squadron landed troops at Gotland who raided for supplies. The Great War is a 26-episode documentary series from 1964 on the First World War. Yet, primarily due to internal conflicts in Great Britain and France, that did not happen. At this point, in 1707, Peter offered to return everything he had so far occupied (essentially Ingria) except Saint Petersburg and the line of the Neva,[16] to avoid a full-scale war, but Charles XII refused. In March 1700, a Danish army laid siege to Tönning. During the same period, Sweden conquered Danish and Norwegian provinces north of the Sound (1645; 1658). The treaty deprived Russia of direct access to the Baltic Sea. The book describes the development of the Swedish Army during the Great Northern War, 1700-1721, when Sweden fought against a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Poland-Saxony. In addition to the rivalries in the anti-Swedish coalition, there was an inner-Swedish rivalry between Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, and Frederick I of Hesse-Cassel for the Swedish throne. A respective treaty was concluded in Frederiksborg in June 1720. While the result of the battle is contested, it ended Russian galley raids in 1720. Together with rowers from the ships the Russians had 20,000 men at their disposal even without the cavalry. He did not achieve his main goal: to regain the former eastern Danish provinces lost to Sweden in the course of the 17th century. Finland was returned to Sweden, while the majority of Russia's conquests (Swedish Estonia, Livonia, Ingria, Kexholm and the bulk of Karelia) were ceded to the tsardom. Great Northern War. Peter the Great, whose forces were spread all around the Baltic Sea, envisioned hegemony in East Central Europe and sought to establish naval bases as far west as Mecklenburg. [23] In the treaty of Altranstädt (1706), Augustus was finally forced to step down from the Polish throne, but Charles had already lost the valuable advantage of time over his main enemy in the east, Peter I, who then had the time to recover and build up an army that was both new and better. As negotiations for peace did not progress, the Russian galleys were once again sent to raid the Swedish coast in 1721, targeting primarily the Swedish coast between Gävle and Piteå. For wars with similar names, see, Campaigns and territorial changes 1700–1709 (left) and 1709–1721 (right), 1702–1710: Russia and the Baltic provinces. A Drama of the Great Northern War by John Dalmas a novelized documentary 120,000 words copyright 2010 John Dalmas 6011 O'Sweeney Lane Dublin OH 43016-4221 dalmas@earthlink.net www.johndalmas.com Dec 2010 [52], When Sweden finally was at peace with Hanover, Great Britain, Brandenburg-Prussia and Denmark–Norway, she hoped that the anti-Russian sentiments of the Vienna parties and France would culminate in an alliance that would restore her Russian-occupied eastern provinces. Russia captured Viborg (ru. For parts of the war, Prussia and Hanover also joined the enemy coalition. [40], After the failure of 1712, Peter the Great ordered that further campaigns in war-ravaged regions of Finland with poor transportation networks were to be performed along the coastline and the seaways near the coast. Together they carried a landing force of nearly 30,000 men. He greatly expanded the size of Russia during his reign while providing access to the Baltic, Black, and Caspian seas. [31] When the main army turned south to recover in Ukraine,[32] the second army with supplies and reinforcements was intercepted and routed at Lesnaya—and so were the supplies and reinforcements of Swedish ally Ivan Mazepa in Baturyn. When his army surrendered, Charles XII of Sweden and a few soldiers escaped to Ottoman territory, founding a colony in front of Bender, Moldova. The formal conclusion of the Great Northern War came with the Swedish-Hanoverian and Swedish-Prussian Treaties of Stockholm (1719), the Dano-Swedish Treaty of Frederiksborg (1720), and the Russo-Swedish Treaty of Nystad (1721). Russian breach of the blockade at Hangö forced the Swedish fleet to withdraw to prevent the Russian fleet from reaching Sweden itself. This is when the enemies of the Swedish empire realized that it was the time to get control of the lands of the Swedish empire. His ambitions to transform the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth into an absolute monarchy were not realized due to the zealous nature of the Polish nobility and the previously initiated laws that decreased the power of the monarch. The initial leaders of the anti-Swedish alliance were Peter the Great of Russia, Frederick IV of Denmark–Norway and Augustus II the Strong of Saxony-Poland. Later in the autumn Peter I led an army of 20,000 men in an attempt to take the Swedish town and fortress of Viborg. Alarmed by the Russian preparations Lybecker requested naval units to be brought in as soon as possible in the spring of 1713. 57. [22] August II resisted, still possessing control of his native Saxony, but was decisively defeated at the Battle of Fraustadt in 1706, a battle sometimes compared to the Ancient Battle of Cannae due to the Swedish forces' use of double envelopment, with a deadly result for the Saxon army. In Sweden, the absolute monarchy had come to an end with the death of Charles XII, and Sweden's Age of Liberty began.[16]. Osprey Publishing, 2001. p. 19, Petersen (2007), pp. The troops, who arrived on 12 October, therefore had to abandon the siege after only a few days. Therefore, the war was finally concluded by the Treaty of Nystad between Russia and Sweden in Uusikaupunki (Nystad) on 30 August 1721 (OS). 268–272, 275; Bengtsson (1960), pp. [43], In 1714 far greater Swedish naval assets were diverted towards Finland, which managed to cut the coastal sea route past Hangö cape already in early May 1714. Sweden parried the Danish and Russian attacks at Travendal (August 1700) and Narva (November 1700) respectively, and in a counter-offensive pushed Augustus II's forces through the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth to Saxony, dethroning Augustus on the way (September 1706) and forcing him to acknowledge defeat in the Treaty of Altranstädt (October 1706). 393ff, 409ff, 420–445, had the king arrested in what became known as the "kalabalik", Treaties of Stockholm (Great Northern War), Charles Frederick, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, "Tacitus.nu, Örjan Martinsson. A grand mobilization covering Russia's vast territories would have been unrealistic. [42], The bulk of the Russian forces moved along the coast towards Borgå and the forces of Lybecker, whom Armfelt had joined. [49], After the death of Charles XII, Sweden still refused to make peace with Russia on Peter's terms. He claimed the throne upon Charles XII's death in 1718, but was supplanted by Ulrike Eleonora. Together with the Swedish fleet, they carried out a bombardment of Copenhagen from 20 to 26 July. Danish force", The Northern War of 1700–1721. Hatton, Ragnhild M. "Charles XII and the Great Northern War." Swedish allies included Holstein-Gottorp, several Polish magnates under Stanisław I Leszczyński (1704–1710) and Cossacks under the Ukrainian Hetman Ivan Mazepa (1708–1710). Between the years of 1560 and 1658, Sweden created a Baltic empire centred on the Gulf of Finland and comprising the provinces of Karelia, Ingria, Estonia, and Livonia. in J.S. In the late 1690s, the adventurer Johann Patkul managed to ally Russia with Denmark and Saxony by the secret Treaty of Preobrazhenskoye, and in 1700 the three powers attacked. Poland and Saxony together could mobilize at least 100,000 men. George I of the House of Hanover, elector of Hanover and, since 1714, king of Great Britain and of Ireland, took the opportunity to connect his landlocked German electorate to the North Sea. Since the Russian galley fleet was not able to raid the Swedish coast, with the exception of Umeå, which was plundered on 18 September, the fleet instead supported the advance of the Russian army, which led to hastily withdrawal by the Swedish army from Raahe (Brahestad) to Tornio (Torneå). Britain would briefly switch sides and supported Sweden before leaving the war. Charles XII of Sweden[nb 1] succeeded Charles XI of Sweden in 1697, aged 14. He was determined to gain the Oder estuary with its access to the Baltic Sea for the Brandenburgian core areas, which had been a state goal for centuries. Russian victories at Erastfer and Nöteborg (Shlisselburg) provided access to Ingria in 1703, where Peter captured the Swedish fortress of Nyen, guarding the mouth of the River Neva. These terms were laid out in the Treaty of Adrianople (1713). However, the Swedish state ultimately proved unable to support and maintain its army in a prolonged war. In November, the Russian and Swedish armies met at the First Battle of Narva where the Russians suffered a crushing defeat.[21]. [46] Previously a formally neutral party in the Pomeranian campaigns, Brandenburg-Prussia openly joined the coalition by declaring war on Sweden in the summer of 1715. His meeting with Peter the Great in Rawa Ruska in September 1698, where the plans to attack Sweden were made, became legendary for its decadence. George I of Great Britain and Hanover concluded three alliances in 1715: the Treaty of Berlin with Denmark–Norway, the Treaty of Stettin with Brandenburg-Prussia, and the Treaty of Greifswald with Russia. In 1710 the Russian forces captured Riga,[35] at the time the most populated city in the Swedish realm, and Tallinn, evicting the Swedes from the Baltic provinces, now integrated in the Russian Tsardom by the capitulation of Estonia and Livonia. [47] Charles was then at war with much of Northern Europe, and Stralsund was doomed. The Great Northern War (1700–1721) was a conflict in which a coalition led by the Tsardom of Russia successfully contested the supremacy of the Swedish Empire in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Frederick William I entered the war as elector of Brandenburg and king in Prussia – the royal title had been secured in 1701. A Military History of Russia: From Ivan the Terrible to the War in Chechnya, David R. Stone. From his predecessor, he took over the Swedish Empire as an absolute monarch. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth was formally neutral at this point, as Augustus started the war as an Elector of Saxony. Charles was crushingly defeated by a larger Russian force under Peter in the Battle of Poltava and fled to the Ottoman Empire while the remains of his army surrendered at Perevolochna.[33]. Peter I took advantage of this by redeploying a large number of men from Ingria to Ukraine.[27]. In 1700 which power was the Under his command the Swedish army in Finland stopped to engage the advancing Russians at Pälkäne in October 1713, where a Russian flanking manoeuvre forced him to withdraw to avoid getting encircled. The documentary was a co-production of the Imperial War Museum, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Later in July 1720 a squadron from the Swedish battlefleet engaged the Russian galley fleet in the battle of Grengam. Before the Civil War, the vast majority (approximately 90 percent) of African Americans lived in the South. pp. However, bad roads proved impassable to his heavy siege guns. [50], After the treaty of Frederiksborg in early 1720, Sweden was no longer at war with Denmark, which allowed more forces to be placed against the Russians. Biopic of Peter I, Czar of Russia, from childhood in 1682 to the Great Northern War against Sweden during the 1700s. He did put an end to the Swedish threat south of Denmark. The Gottorp party succumbed and Ulrike Eleonora, wife of Frederick I, transferred power to her husband in May 1720. Charles Frederick was married to a daughter of Peter I, Anna Petrovna. ", Ottoman–Tatar Invasion of Lithuania and Poland, This page was last edited on 22 January 2021, at 22:55. Greenwood Publishing Group (2006). Campaigns on the continent had been proposed on the basis that the army would be financially self-supporting through plunder and taxation of newly gained land, a concept shared by most major powers of the period. Teemu Keskisarja (2019). By 1704, other fortresses were situated on the island of Kotlin and the sand flats to its south. Charles XII refrained from all kinds of luxury and alcohol and usage of the French language, since he considered these things decadent and superfluous. [20], Charles XII was now able to speedily deploy his army to the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea and face his remaining enemies: besides the army of Augustus II in Livonia, an army of Russian tsar Peter I was already on its way to invade Swedish Ingria,[20] where it laid siege to Narva in October. The fleet had already arrived at Helsinki on 8 May and were met by 1,800 Swedish infantry under General Carl Gustaf Armfeldt. [48], After Charles XII had returned from the Ottoman Empire and resumed personal control of the war effort, he initiated two Norwegian Campaigns, starting in February 1716, to force Denmark–Norway into a separate peace treaty. This surprise move and pressure by the Maritime Powers (England and the Dutch Republic) forced Denmark–Norway to withdraw from the war in August 1700 according to the terms of the Peace of Travendal. He preferred the life of an ordinary soldier on horseback, not that of contemporary baroque courts. Frederick IV and Augustus II were defeated by Sweden, under Charles XII, and forced out of the alliance in 1700 and 1706 respectively, but rejoined it in 1709 after the defeat of Charles XII at the Battle of Poltava. In August 1708, a Swedish army of 12,000 men under General Georg Henrik Lybecker attacked Ingria, crossing the Neva from the north. However the ensuing Pruth River Campaign resulted in a disaster for the Russians as Peter's army was trapped by an Ottoman army at the Pruth river. The Great Migration. Russia left Poland in the spring of 1706, abandoning artillery but escaping from the pursuing Swedes, who stopped at Pinsk. Russian fortunes began to reverse in the final years of the 17th century, notably with the rise to power of Peter the Great, who looked to address the earlier losses and re-establish a Baltic presence. In January 1719, George I, Augustus and emperor Charles VI concluded a treaty in Vienna aimed at reducing Russia's frontiers to the pre-war limits. 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