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		The battle near the Village of Lesnaya (September 28 1708) was called the mother of the Battle of Poltava, where the Russians beat Swedes.
		Two centuries after the battle in 1908 they erected a memorial at the former battlefield: Apostle Peter’s Chapel and the statue of a Russian eagle with the Swedish banner in his claws.
		The field on the outskirts of the village of Buinichi near Mogilev was the place where a group of peasant rebels and Cossacks joined in a battle with the 18,000-strong cavalry army of the Great Duchy of Lithuania.
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	Battle of Lesnaya
		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.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ba/Battle_of_Lesnaya.html (417 words)

	Peter I of Russia
		Sweden was the dominant military power of eastern Europe and was led by the young but brilliant King Charles XII of Sweden, who was to prove to be a worthy adversary for Peter.
		Russia turned out to be ill-prepared to fight the well-trained Swedes, and their first attempt at seizing the Baltic coast ended in disaster at the Battle of Narva in 1700.
		After crossing into Russia in 1708, Charles defeated Peter at Golovchin (July 3, 1708) but then suffered his first defeat at the Battle of Lesnaya (September 28, 1708), when Peter crushed the left wing of the Swedish army moving down from Riga to join Charles's main army.
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		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 Russian sniper, during an inspection of the Swedish outposts on the banks of the Vorskla, and had to turn over command to Field Marshal Carl Gustav RehnskiÃ¶ld.
		Peter Englund, The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire.
	www.happydogsclup.com /sdmc_Battle_of_Poltava (1281 words)

	Battle of Lesnaya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Battle of Lesnaya by Jean-Marc Nattier, painted 1717
		Lewenhaupt was not fazed ; no top-notch Swedish army had yet been defeated by the Russians in eight years of war.
		Note about date: Sweden had its own calendar between 1700 and 1712, so in the Swedish calendar the battle of Lesnaya took place on September 29, 1708.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Lesnaya (544 words)

	Battle of Poltava - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The battle began before dawn at 3:45 am, with the Swedes advancing against the Russian fortified lines.
		At first, the battle started off in a traditional fashion, with the better trained Swedes pressing in on the Russians' left flank and center, overunning a few Russian defensive redoubts.
		Peter Englund, The Battle of Poltava: The Birth of the Russian Empire.
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	Battle of Lesnaya: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
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		In Masuria one third of the population die during the plague
		September 28: Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya
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	::The Great Northern War::
		Charles signed the Treaty of Warsaw with Poland in February 1705 which was for peace and commerce and defeated and he defeated the Saxons at the Battle of Fraustadt in February 1706.
		The winter of 1708 to 1709 was one of the worst on records and had a major impact on Sweden's army that was wintering in the Ukraine.
		Also, the advance of Lewenhaupt was stopped at the Battle of Lesnaya in 1708 where he lost his entire supply column.
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		Russia turned out to be ill-prepared to fight the Swedes, and their first attempt at seizing the Baltic coast ended in disaster at the Battle of Narva in 1700.
		In the Battle of Lesnaya, however, Charles suffered his first ever loss after Peter crushed a group of Swedish reinforcements marching from Riga.
		The battle was a decisive defeat for Swedish forces, ending Charles' campaign in Ukraine and forcing him into exile in the Ottoman Empire.
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	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.
		The main part of the Saxon army fled to the south, but the Swedish cavalry on the left, previously so clumsy, now got away in advance of them and succeeded to stop them until the Swedish infantry got there and had them surrounded.
		In the end 7,600 Saxons were taken prisoner and more were killed in the battle.
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		September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years).
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	Great Northern War: Lesnaya (1708)
		Charles XII became the King of Sweden in 1697 at the age of fifteen.
		The battle took place near the village of Lesnaya.
		Some of the Russian dragoons dismounted during this battle and fought on foot.
	www.juniorgeneral.org /gnw/lesnaya.html (1415 words)

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		After the battle, Charles XII decided to concentrate his forces against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, giving Peter I time to reorganize the Russian army.
		In the Battle of Lesnaya, however, Charles suffered his first loss after Peter crushed a group of Swedish reinforcements marching from Riga.
		Peter I in the Battle of Poltava (a mosaic by Mikhail Lomonosov)
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		At the Battle of Almansa, Franco-Spanish forces defeated Anglo-Portuguese.
		Russians defeated the Swedes and Cossacks at the Battle of Poltava.
		John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, won the bloodiest battle of the 18th century at great cost, against the French at Malplaquet.
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	The Picture Hall
		Among these are canvases by Dutch and Flemish masters: architectural compositions by Emanual de Witte, genre paintings by Adrian van Ostade and David Teniers, landscapes by Jan Both, still lifes by David de Gem and Jan Feyt.
		The paintings by French and Italian artists include allegories of sculpture and music by Jean Mark Nattier, battle scenes by Jacques Curtois (Burginogne), mythological and biblical scenes by Jacques Blanchard, Luke Gorgiano and others.
		This variety of genres features two paintings by Pierre Denis Martin the Younger entitled "The Battle of Poltava" and "Battle at Lesnaya." They were created at the special order of Emperor Petr I, who wanted to record the memory of the great victories of the Russian Army in the Northern War (1700 - 1721).
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	World of Quotes - Today in History for September 28
		Battle at Mursa: emperor Constantine II beats emperor Maxentius
		Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert
		Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund II beats Turks
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	The State Hermitage Museum: Hermitage History
		Adjacent to this room was the Memorial Room of Peter the Great, its decoration sumptuous and solemn: raspberry velvet covered the walls, adorned with a thousand gilt bronze double-headed eagles, later replaced by those embroidered with silver thread.
		Surmounting the side walls are two paintings celebrating Peter the Great's victories over Charles XII of Sweden: The Battle at Lesnaya and The Battle at Poltava by Barnabo Medici and Pietro Scotti.
		The allegorical painting Peter I with Glory by Jacopo Amigoni glorified Peter the Great as the creator of a magnificent empire.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/05/hm5_1_17.html (263 words)

	History of Finland and the Finnish People from ice age to WWII. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		-September of 1708 the Russians smashed Leeuwenhaupt's corps in the battle of Lesnaya.
		The battle of Poltava was the turning point of the war that came to end with Russian triumph in 1721.
		In England, Alfred battled the Viking Guthorm on Salisbury Plain, near Ethandun (now called Edington).
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	Jean-Marc Nattier
		His new friendship with the Russian royals led to many commissions for Nattier from 1717-1720.
		Though he would eventually become known for painting mainly portraits, for these three years Nattier painted historical scenes for the Russian monarchy, like this one entitled "The Battle of Lesnaya" 1717.
		Nattier preferred to paint historical scenes, but due to hard times was forced to paint mainly portraits in order to make a living.
	www.artexpertswebsite.com /pages/artists/nattier.html (448 words)

	Great Northern War - Wikimedia Commons
		Poltava battle, fragment of mosaic, by Mikhail Lomonosov, 1717
		Capture ships at battle of Gangut in Saint Petersburg
		This page was last modified 09:05, 19 December 2006.
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	W4343: Imperial Russia
		Conspired with the Polish and Swedish kings to overthrow Peter, and supported Charles XII's invasion of Ukraine.
		Defeated at the battle of Poltava in 1709.
		Poltava - Ukrainian town on the Vorskiya river, near which the Battle of Poltava took place on July 8, 1709, ending the Great Northern War with Sweden.
	www.columbia.edu /itc/history/wortman/courseref.html (4409 words)

	History of Finland and the Finnish People from ice age to WWII.
		Finns or their close relatives occupied the north long before Slavs set foot on their sacred ground.
		Russian historians try to downplay this, and claim that Finns moved in from the east about the same time they arrived there, and there was a battle for ownership.
		This is false, but many ignorant people still write this stuff.
	uralica.com /earlyfin.htm (9448 words)

	Winter Of Discontent
		Of the 40,000 troops at his disposal after the arrival of Lewenhaupt’s tattered band in October 1708, Charles’s command was now reduced to a mere 24,000, among whom were some 2,250 sick and wounded.
		[iv] General J.F.C. Fuller, The Decisive Battles of the Western World, Vol.
		[v] Peter Englund, The Battle That Shook Europe, page 56
	www.battlefieldanomalies.com /poltava/05_winter_of_discontent.htm (538 words)

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