Battle of Lesnaya
Russian history
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role of Peter I
- In Peter I: The Northern War (1700–21)
…and in the battles of Lesnaya (1708) and of Poltava (1709). At Poltava, where Charles XII of Sweden suffered a catastrophic defeat, the plan of operations was Peter’s own: it was his idea to transform the battlefield by works of his military engineers—the redoubts erected in the path of the…
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