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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Battle of Poltava
		The Battle of Poltava was a battle between the armies of Peter I of Russia and Charles XII of Sweden in 1709.
		By the time they reached Poltava, Charles had been wounded, one-third of his infantry was dead, and his reinforcements held back by Cossack raiders.
		The battle was a disaster, and Charles fled south to the Ottoman Empire.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ba/Battle_of_Poltava (167 words)

	Poltava, Russia (Capital) - LoveToKnow 1911
		POLTAVA, a town of Russia, capital of the government of the same name, on the right bank of the Vorskla, 88 m.
		Poltava is mentioned in Russian annals in 1174, under the name of Ltava, but does not again appear in history until 1430, when, together with Glinsk, it was given by Gedimin, prince of Lithuania, to the Tatar prince Leksada.
		Under the Cossack chief, Bogdan Chmielnicki, it was the chief town of the Poltava "regiment." Peter the Great of Russia defeated Charles XII.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Poltava,_Russia_(Capital) (196 words)

	Battle of Poltava Information
		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 an 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.
		Peter Englund, The Battle of Poltava: The Birth of the Russian Empire.
	www.bookrags.com /Battle_of_Poltava (1262 words)

	Poltava, Battle of
		One such city was Poltava, situated at the intersection of important routes to
		I arrived to relieve Poltava and decided his army of 42,500 soldiers and 102 cannons would attack the Swedes on 10 July.
		Poltava was opened at the battle site in 1950.
	www.encyclopediaofukraine.com /pages/P/O/PoltavaBattleof.htm (627 words)

	APOGEE PHOTO MAGAZINE: Poltava
		The ancient town of Poltava, situated on the banks of the Vorskla River (a tributary of the Dnieper), is one of the regional centers in the Ukraine.
		However, in 1430, the name "Poltava" is used in histories, which mention the settlement as a part of a Lithuanian principality, and by 1641, Poltava graduated to being called a "town." Many of the town dwellers were farmers and cattlemen who took part in the liberation war of the Ukrainians (1648-1654).
		Poltava had leaped out and paused in the air for a moment--like a dolphin--and then sank back into the sea of time.
	www.apogeephoto.com /mar2000/poltava.htm (1424 words)

	Battle of Poltava - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		The Battle of Poltava (or Pultowa) was a battle between the armies of Peter I of Russia and Charles XII of Sweden on June 28 (new style July 8) 1709, the most famous of the battles of the Great Northern War.
		Lewenhaupt followed south and was attacked while crossing a river near a small village that gave name to the Battle of Lesnaya, but were amazed to find the new Russian army gave them a serious fight.
		Their first stop was to lay siege to the fort of Poltava on the Vorskla River in Ukraine.
	www.music.us /education/B/Battle-of-Poltava.htm (1053 words)

	Poke's Fifteen Decisive Battles
		Such, at that period, had been the recent aggrandizement of Russia; and the events of the last few years, by weakening and disuniting all her European neighbors, have immeasurably augmented the relative superiority of the Muscovite empire over all the other Continental powers.
		Each sovereign exposed his life freely in the world-winning battle, and on each side the troops fought obstinately and eagerly under their ruler's eyes.
		The peace of Nystadt, which transferred the fairest provinces of Sweden to Russia, ratified the judgment of battle which was pronounced at Pultowa.
	www.standin.se /fifteen12a.htm (4670 words)

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		The old town of Poltava situated on the banks of the Vorskla River (a tributary of the Dnepr) is a provincial center in Ukraine.
		The Battle of Poltava is perhaps the most famous episode in the Great Northern War (1700-1721).
		When the forces finally defeated King Charles XII of Sweden in 1709 at Poltava, it became the turning point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years.
	www.a-russian-bride.net /poltava.shtml (554 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Poltava
		315,000), capital of Poltava region, E Ukraine, on the Kiev-Kharkiv highway and on the Vorskla River, a tributary of the Dnieper.
		Poltava, Battle of (1709) PETER THE GREAT's decisive victory over CHARLES XII of Sweden in the NORTHERN WAR.
		The battle was fought near Poltava, Ukr., between 80,000 Russian troops under Peter I the Great and Aleksandr Menshikov and 17,000 Swedish troops under Charles XII.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Poltava&StartAt=1 (814 words)

	Archaeology finds itself in an interesting box: St James the Brother of the Lord
		Among the famous saints of the Poltava region is Saint Athanasius "the Sitting" Wonderworker of Lubensk and Patron of Poltava.
		Athanasius was Greek and was born on the isle of Crete in 1597.
		Glorified a saint in 1997 by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, he was sent to the cruelty and barbarism of the Solovetsky Islands in the White Sea, to Siberia and finally to the NKVD torture chambers of Lubyanka in Moscow.
	www.unicorne.org /orthodoxy/septembre02/poltava.htm (1400 words)

	Poltava 291 the Ukrainian journey presented by Luffa.nu
		One of the most important places to visit during this journey was the city of Poltava where the famous battle between Sweden and Russia took place in 1709.
		We are entering Poltava 291 years after the battle and that fact named this website and adventure.
		It was fought north and west of Poltava, west of the Vorskla River, in the Ukraine, between 80,000 Russian troops under Peter the Great and the general Prince Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov and 17,000 Swedes under Charles XII.
	www.luffa.nu /poltava291/battle.htm (330 words)

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		The decisive victory of the Russians is said to have started the end of Sweden's role as a Great Power and took their place as the leading nation of northern Europe.
		To make matters worse for the Swedes, Charles was wounded during the siege on June 17, when he was hit in the foot when he took part in a small engagement during an inspection of the Swedish outposts on the banks of the Vorskla.
		Peter Englund, The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Battle_of_Poltava (1171 words)

	The Battle of POLTAVA
		His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia.
		For almost three hundred years, from the Baltic states through Poland and the Ukraine down to the Black Sea, the future of millions was sealed by this decisive battle.
		The Battle of Poltava is an indictment of the savagery of wars, and the forces that cause them.
	freespace.virgin.net /gerald.hughes/books/tbop.htm (229 words)

	washingtonpost.com: In Ukraine, a Film's Hazy History Lesson
		He argues that had King Charles XII of Sweden beaten Peter the Great at Poltava and kept his deal, Mazepa would have been remembered as the George Washington of Ukraine.
		With the Cossacks thus split and dispirited, Peter went on to defeat Charles at Poltava in what became the pinnacle of the czar's reign, establishing Russia as a great European power for the first time.
		Mazepa, on the other hand, died in disgraced exile; only in 1992 did the Ukrainian Orthodox Church remove the anathema, or curse of damnation, placed upon him by Peter's order, and only in 1999 were his remains returned from Romania for burial at Baturyn.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A29878-2002Oct1?language=printer (1272 words)

	Peter the Great's Work on Building his Dream: St. Petersburg
		Poltava is a town located by a tributary to the Dnieper, and had been fortified heavily by the Russians since the humiliating defeat at Narva.
		He proceeded with the battle plans as if nothing had changed, and even had some of his men carry him to the lines so he could be with the troops.
		The Battle of Poltava had been a disaster for Charles XII and the Swedish Empire, but a triumph for Peter and St. Petersburg.
	it.stlawu.edu /~rkreuzer/pmayopike/website.html (3000 words)

	Poltava - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Poltava, city, capital of Poltava Oblast, eastern Ukraine, on the Vorskla River.
		The city is the trade and transportation center of a fertile...
		The reign of the 15-year-old Charles XII, who came to the throne in 1697, marked the beginning of the decline of Sweden as a world power.
	encarta.msn.com /Poltava.html (112 words)

	Russian Military Medals
		The medals given for the Battle of Poltava were worn on a narrow blue ribbon of the colour of the ribbon of the Order of St Andrew the First-Called, the only Russian order at the time.
		The last of the three battles, in which Turkish troops were defeated despite the fact that they outnumbered Russian forces fivefold, was marked by issuing silver medals with the inscription "Kagul 21 July 1770".
		As a reward for that battle, all of the personnel of the Russian ships that took part in the fight were given medals on a special ribbon of the colors of St Andrew's flag - the flag of the Russian na vy.
	www.sadcom.com /pins/article/r_medals.htm (3173 words)

	Poltava 1709
		The fate of the campaign was sealed in battle of Poltava in the summer of 1709, which to this day ranks as the most famous defeat in Swedish history.
		Worse still, the king himself was wounded in the days before the battle and the command had to be passed to the field marshal Rhensköld.
		Ironically, it was just this offensive tactics that brought the demise of Carolines at Poltava, when 4000 of Charles XII's remaining infantry charged seventy guns and 22000 Russian infantry in the final action of the battle.
	www.ipmsstockholm.org /magazine/2003/12/stuff_eng_eriksson_poltava_1709.htm (764 words)

	Amazon.com: The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire: Books: Peter Englund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of Peter the Great’s vast Russian Empire.
		When the forces finally defeated King Charles XII of Sweden in 1708 at Poltava, in the Ukraine, it proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years.
		The description of the Swedish army preparing for battle and its later disintegration as attrition and the fog of war took over, is key in understanding why the Swedes lost and allows insight into the impact of the fog of war.
	www.amazon.com /Battle-That-Shook-Europe-Poltava/dp/1860648479 (2148 words)

	Alibris: Poltava
		Poltava marked the demise of Sweden as a European great power and the rise of Russia in her place.
		The Battle That Shook Europe: Poltava and the Birth of the Russian Empire
		The battle of Poltava : the birth of the Russian Empire
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Poltava (361 words)

	A Guide to the Armies of the Great Northern War
		In 1709 this was reinforced by the news of the disastrous, for the Swedes, battle of Poltava.
		This culminated in the decisive victory at Poltava in 1709 and the surrender of the main Swedish army shortly afterwards.
		The battle of Poltava transformed the reputation of the Russian army and virtually won the war, although it would take a long time for the Swedes to admit they were defeated.
	www.wfgamers.org.uk /resources/C18/gnw.htm (3095 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)

	About Cossacks
		Battle of the White Mountain/Battle of Breitenfeld/Battle of Luetzen
		It was one of the most astonishing battles in world history.
		The battle raged until dusk, and Banner won a brilliant victory over a numerically vastly superior enemy.
	www.angelfire.com /tv2/siambear50/History_battle_of_wittsstock.htm (151 words)

	Battle of Poltava - Definition, explanation
		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 traditional fashion, with the better trained Swedes pressing in on their left flank and center, overunning a few Russian defensive redoubts.
		1 Swedish Officers in the Battle of Poltava
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/ba/battle_of_poltava.php (978 words)

	Battle of Poltava, 28 June 1709
		Charles XII of Sweden had managed to maintain an army of 20,000 men through the Russian winter of 1708/9, although they were very short on ammunition and artillery.
		Peter I the Great of Russia marched to the relief of the city with an army of 100,000 men, and after some initial skirmishing, battle was joined on 28 June.
		Charles XII, who had been wounded before the battle, had to be taken to safety, and escaped to Turkish Moldavia with a mere 1,500 men, where he remained for close to two years.
	www.historyofwar.org /articles/battles_poltava.html (245 words)

	The Battle of Narva
		During this battle Rehnskiöld was in command, and not the king as one might think.
		However, the king decided that a show of strength was to be put up for the defeated, so he ordered that all Russian soldiers had to walk by him (as seen on the picture to the right), head bowed, hat in hand.
		This battle is often portrayed as one of the greatest in Swedish military history.
	www.stormaktstiden.com /handelser/battle_of_narva.htm (1710 words)

	EuroScope: On-Line Guides: Ukraine: Poltava
		Poltava, the city of ancient origins (its first mention dates back to the 12th century, and the exact date of foundation is unknown), has always been a major center of traditional Ukrainian culture.
		typical for the first half of the 19-th century; the Museum of Panas Myrniy, famous Ukrainian writer; the Museum of the Battle of Poltava (1709).
		Gala dinner at the POLTAVA HOTEL together with the local people of arts who maintain the cultural environment of the "heart of Ukrainian culture" - the city of Poltava.
	pages.prodigy.net /euroscope/poltava.html (181 words)

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