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	Battle of Lesnaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Lesnaya was one of the decisive battles of the Great Northern War.
		Lewenhaupt, one of Sweden's foremost generals, was the commander of one of Sweden's best armies, based at the Baltic Sea port of Riga.
		The battle itself was closely contested and both forces suffered heavy casualties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lesnaya (506 words)

	Battle of Poltava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Poltava (or Pultowa) was a battle between the armies of Peter I of Russia and Charles XII of Sweden on 28 June (new style 8 July) 1709, the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War.
		To make matters worse for the Swedish, Charles was wounded during the siege on June 17 when he was hit in the foot by a musketball during a inspection of the Swedish outposts by a Russian sniper on the banks of the Vorskla, and had to turn over command to Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld.
		By 12:00 noon, the battle was over as Russian cavalry had mopped up the stragglers on the battlefield and returned to their own lines.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Poltava (1294 words)

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		Battle at Nesjar in Tröndelag, Norway, in 1016.
		Battle at Bornhöved in Holstein 1227 between King Valdemar and German troops commanded by Bishop Gerhard of Bremen.
		Naval battle in Køge Bay 1710 between a danish fleet commanded by Ulrich Christian Gyldenløve (illegitemate son of King Christian IV) and a Swedish fleet commanded by Admiral Wachtmeister.
	www.geocities.com /armdury/Hvornaar.html (5053 words)

	Battle of Fraustadt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Fraustadt was fought on February 3, 1706 between Swedish and Saxon-Russian forces near Fraustadt (present-day Wschowa) in Poland.
		In the end 7,300 Saxons were taken prisoner and more were killed in the battle.
		This article about a historical battle is a stub.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Fraustadt (244 words)

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		In a naval battle in the Baltic soon after, he engaged with his little frigate two of the enemy's line-of-battle ships that were trying to get away, and only when a third came to help them did he retreat, so battered that he had to seek port to make repairs.
		After the battle of Kolberger Heide, that had gone against the Swedes, he found them beaching their ships under cover of the night to prevent their falling into the hands of the victors.
		When things were at their worst in storm or battle, he was wont to shout to his men, "Hi, _now_ we are having a fine time!" and his battle-cry has passed into the language.
	www.gutenberg.org /dirs/1/2/4/8/12481/12481-8.txt (22058 words)

	Battle of Dynekilen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The naval Battle of Dynekilen took place on 8 July 1716 during the Great Northern War, when a light Danish-Norwegian force under Tordenskjold trapped and defeated a similar Swedish force in Dynekilen fjord (just north of Strömstad), on the west coast of Sweden.
		Categories: Battles of the Great Northern War
		This page was last modified 08:42, 10 February 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Dynekilen (218 words)

	Encyclopedia: Battle of Dynekilen
		The battle of Fraustadt was fought on February 3, 1706 between Swedish and Russians.
		The Battle of Holowczyn was fought between the Russian army, led by Field Marshal Sheremetyev, and the Swedish army, led by Charles XII of Sweden.
		The naval Battle of Gangut took place on July 27, 1714 during the Great Northern War, in the waters north of the Hanko Peninsula, near the site of the modern-day city of Hanko, Finland, between the Swedish Navy and Imperial Russian Navy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Battle-of-Dynekilen (645 words)

	Swedish victory at Poltava
		The Swedish archipelago flotilla and admiral Gustaf Wattrang's battle fleet squadron should still be able to block the Gulf at least up to Helsinki, denying the Russian access to Åbo and Åland archipelago, and as the Gulf of Finland eventually freezes, the naval operations will effectively end for the year.
		The fate of Finland is decided in the ensuing battle of Mäntsälä, fought amid the snow-drifts in the bitter cold of the Northern winter.
		One of the little-known curiosities of the historic Battle of Poltava was the fate of one Swedish officer, Johan Gustaf Renat, who was among the soldiers captured by the victorious Russians and whose endeavours turned out to have an unexpected impact on the history of the 18th century Central Asia.
	www.uta.fi /~jj58679/poltava.html (9825 words)

	Naval warfare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Battle of the Sound on October 29, 1858, between the Dutch and Swedish fleets was just as much a battle for Denmark.
		The army did not have the same success in the war on land, and after having taken Scania in the summer of 1676 it was defeated in the decisive battle for Lund in December of the same year, and was forced to retreat to Landskrona.
		The Battle of Køge Bugt was the culmination at sea of the Scanian War.
	www.orlogsmuseet.dk /kroneng1any22.htm (4404 words)

	List of naval battles: Encyclopedia topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		411 BC Cynossema (Cynossema: the battle of cynossema was a naval battle in the hellespont in 411 bc between athens...
		410 BC Cyzicus (Cyzicus: the battle of cyzicus in 410 bc was a small-scale naval battle during the peloponnesian...
		1354 Sapienza (Sapienza: in the battle of sapienza in 1354 the genoan navy defeated the venetian navy....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/list_of_naval_battles (8141 words)

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		Battles at Oeland 1676 and Moen 1677 (navy).
		Battle at Dybboel 1848 (army), Constitution Day 1849 (all services).
		Battle in Koege bay 1710, storming of Frederiksstad 1850 (army and navy).
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	Battle of Gadebusch - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The battle wound down by dusk: Danish and Saxon forces withdrew more or less orderly to a position several kilometers west of Gadebusch to regroup.
		After the battle Stenbock was promoted to Field Marshal by an approving King Charles.
		The battle was won by efficient use of artillery, and it gave the hard-pressed Swedish forces some well needed breathing room.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Battle_of_Gadebusch (677 words)

	Pippin of Italy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In 774 he deposed their king Desiderius and was himself crowned king of the Lombards, permanently unifying the kingdom of Italy to the Frankish crown.
		Charlemagne was engaged in almost constant battle throughout his reign, with his legendary sword Joyeuse in hand.
		After thirty years of war and eighteen battles -- the Saxon Wars -- he conquered Saxony, a goal that had been the unattainable dream of Augustus, and proceeded to convert the conquered to Catholic Christianity, using force where necessary.
	bijektivna.funkcija.sl.reference.pl /en/Pippin+of+Italy (4843 words)

	BAKTRUPPEN - Great European Battles
		August 20th, 2002: Baktruppen arrives the battle ground of Kortrijk, Belgium, near the old theatres of World War I, II, etc. A military camp is established behind the cathedral, right in the centre of the city.
		The day won the battle of the light, but it is going to lose in the battle of the dark(ness).
		It has been one performance with Oscar reconstructing the battle of Dynekilen between Karl XII of Sweden and the guerillia warrior of Tordenskiold.
	www.baktruppen.org /battles/battles.html (10772 words)

	Encyclopedia: July 8
		The naval Battle of Malta took place on July 8, 1283 in the entrance to Grand Harbor, Valetta, when a galley fleet commanded by Roger of Lauria (Ruggiero di Lauria) defeated a fleet of Angevin galleys commanded by William Cornut and Bartholomew Bonvin.
		Events June 19 - Battle of Landriano - A French army in Italy under Marshal St....
		Events February 27 - Battle of Ancrum Moor - Scots victory over superior English forces December 13 - Official opening of the Council of Trent (closed 1563) Battle of Kawagoe - between two branches of Uesugi families and the late Hojo clan in Japan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/July-8 (8644 words)

	Ernst Simon Bloch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		- 1709 - Battle of Poltava: Peter I of Russia defeats Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava thus effectively ending Sweden's role as a major power in Europe.
		August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining.
		- 1265 - The Battle of Evesham of the Second Barons' War is fought in Worcestershire, with the army of future King Edward I of England defeating the forces of rebellious barons led by Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and killing de Montfort and many of his allies.
	ernst.simon.bloch.en.reference.pl (3865 words)

	NorHouse: The Nordic Countries - Norway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Though terror was the Vikings' historic trademark, colonization, a primitive form of trade and even, eventually, Christianity were their testament to the future.
		King Olaf II established Christianity in Norway and became St.Olaf after his death at the battle of Stiklestad in 1030.
		As Europe battled, Norway remained neutral quietly building a maritime foundation and increasing its wealth by the sale of timber, which, by 1650 had supplanted fish as the main export.
	www.norhouse.com /country.asp?art_id=CO-003 (1974 words)

	The Project Gutenberg eBook of Hero Tales of the Far North, by Jacob A. Riis
		At the battle in the Bay of Kjöge, the Dannebrog, commanded by Ivar Hvitfeldt, caught fire, and by its position exposed the Danish fleet to great danger.
		When things were at their worst in storm or battle, he was wont to shout to his men, "Hi, now we are having a fine time!" and his battle-cry has passed into the language.
		Should the child be a girl, he tells her to build only a spire, for "modesty beseemeth a woman." Well for Sir Asker that he did not live in our day of clamoring suffragists.
	www.gutenberg.org /files/12481/12481-h/12481-h.htm (20849 words)

	Jaimoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		- February 15 - Battle of Monte Cassino - the monastery atop Monte Cassino is destroyed by Allied bombing.
		The battle ended in an American victory on February 22.
		Largest battle ever to be fought in the Nordic countries.
	jaimoe.en.reference.pl (6971 words)

	Historie på Engelsk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Therefore, when moving from one place to another, the battle formation was broken into Züge or smaller parts in a width practical to advance in on the narrow roads and paths.
		The Swedes are attacking the Norwegian fortress and show what would have happened in such a small battle all over Europe, when commanders wanted to test out one another without engaging the whole army.
		The battle formations are done according to regulations of 1700 - and the battle is one of those where the enemies never actually ever get even a glimpse of one another.
	org.fredrikstad.kommune.no /tambour/Norske%20websider/historie_p%C3%A5_engelsk.htm (3655 words)

	Danish Kings · Frederik 4.
		Once again, the Great powers of Europe intervened, and after a very quick peace accord at Travendal, the Swedes were forced away form Zealand and the Danes were forced out of the Gottorp part of Southern Jutland.
		The differences with Sweden persisted, however, and when the Swedes lost a major battle to the Russian army near Poltava (after which Karl 12.
		At the peace accord in 1721 at Frederiksborg Castle it was decided that the Gottorp part of southern Jutland should once again come under the Danish crown, but other than that, everything stayed the same as before the start of the war.
	www.danskekonger.dk /eng/biografi/FreIV.html (660 words)

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		1709 - At "The Battle of Poltava" forces under Peter I of Russia defeated the army of Charles XII of Sweden at Poltava.
		390 BC - At "The Battle of the Allia" a Roman army was defeated by raiding Gauls.
		This was the final battle of the Wars of Scottish Independence and resulted in a crushing Scottish defeat.
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		Han skal ha vært med i slaget ved Dynekilen i 1716.
		He is said to have been at the battle of Dynekilen in 1716.
		The naval vessel in the Tingvoll church may have been a model of a frigate in Tordenskiold's fleet.
	www.tingvoll.org /tingvollkirka/del15.htm (227 words)

	Austin Bradford Hill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott ride to warn of impending arrests of Samuel Adams and John Hancock and seizure of weapons.
		- 1797 - Battle of Neuwied resulted in the victory of French under General Louis Lazare Hoche against Austrians under General Wermecek.
		The one-day action is the world's largest naval battle since World War II.
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	Guillermo Leon Valencia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		- February 2 - World War II: In Russia, the Battle of Stalingrad comes to an end with the surrender of the German 6th Army.
		- February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
		- March 26 - World War II: Battle of Komandorski Islands - In the Aleutian Islands the battle begins when United States Navy forces intercept Japanese attempting to reinforce a garrison at Kiska.
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	Grace Coolidge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		- January 22 - Zulu troops massacre British troops at the Battle of Isandlwana.
		At Rorke's Drift, outnumbered British soldiers drive the attackers away after hours of fighting.
		- March 29 - Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
	holodek.sl.reference.pl /en/Grace+Coolidge (4030 words)

	(GCQEZ3) Tordenskjolds Oak - Tordenskjoldseika, KTU #11 by KTU
		Any Swedish fleet that tried to take on him was suppressed.
		at Dynekilen, destroying the whole fleet, 25 ships in all.
		This battle was followed by the conquest of Marstrand in 1719,
	www.brillig.com /geocaching/r.cgi?gs=288460 (444 words)

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		During the Great Nordic War (1700-1720) Mynden was reactivated as warship.
		In 1716 the frigate took part in the battle of Dynekilen in a squadron under the command of the infamous Captain Tordenskjold.
		In 1718 Lieutenant Hans Friedrich Dreeßen became captain of the frigate.
	www.fregatte-mynden.de /eng/geschichte.html (696 words)

	World War 1 and 2 - List of naval battles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is a chronological list of naval fleet battles:
		Last of the five battles between Suffren and Hughes
		1879–1883 the War of the Pacific, including the battles of Iquique (21 May 1879) and Angamos (8 October 1879)
	www.worldwardiary.com /history/List_of_naval_battles (4048 words)

	Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The city fell under Roman rule around 60 BC.
		The city was plundered by the troops of Abd er Rahman in 732, after he had defeated Duke Eudes and before he was killed during the Battle of Tours on October 10.
		From the 12th to the 15th century, Bordeaux was part of the English Kingdom, following the marriage of Duchess Alienor (Eleonor in English) d'Aquitaine with the French speaking Count Henri Plantagenet, born in Le Mans, who became, within months of their wedding, King Henry II of England.
	bijektivna.funkcija.sl.reference.pl /en/Pierre+Alexis+Ponson+du+Terrail (5012 words)

	Ray Barbuti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		- 1653 - First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Gabbard – lasted until June 13.
		- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Cold Harbor – General Ulysses S. Grant pulls his troops from their positions at Cold Harbor, Virginia and moves south.
		- May 27-28 - Russo-Japanese War: Battle of Tsushima - The Japanese fleet under Admiral Heihachiro Togo destroys Russian fleet under Admiral Zinovi Petrovich Rozhdestvenski in this two day battle
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