Battle of Hummelshof
1702 engagement during the Great Northern War
Battle of Hummelshof | |||||||
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Part of the Great Northern War | |||||||
Anonymous copperplate of the battle (1733) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Swedish Empire | Tsardom of Russia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach | Boris Sheremetev | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
6,000 men[1] 17 artillery pieces[2] | 20,000[3]–23,969 men[2] 24 artillery pieces[2] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
2,000 killed and over 1,000 wounded and captured[3] or 5,500 killed and wounded, all cannons[4] | 1,000[5]–4,000 killed and wounded[3] |
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Great Northern War
- Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp (1700)
- 1st Tönning
- Reinbek
- Humlebæk
- Swedish Baltic dominions
- 1st Riga
- Varja
- 1st Narva
- Düna
- Rauge
- Erastfer
- Hummelshof
- Nöteborg
- Systerbäck
- Wesenberg
- 2nd Narva
- Neva
- Koporye
- Kolkanpää
- 2nd Riga
- Courland and Western Lithuania
- Tryškiai
- Darsūniškis
- Vilnius
- Saločiai
- Jakobstadt
- Palanga
- Gemauerthof
- 1st Grodno
- Valkininkai
- Kletsk
- 2nd Grodno
- Poland and Saxony
- Kliszów
- Pułtusk
- Thorn
- Poznań
- Lemberg
- Poniec
- Warsaw
- Praga
- Fraustadt
- Rosenhain
- Frauenwald
- Kalisz
- Koniecpol
- Russia and Eastern Lithuania
- Petschora
- Holowczyn
- Malatitze
- Rajovka
- Lesnaya
- Desna
- Baturyn
- Veprik
- Oposhnya
- Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye
- Sokolki
- Poltava
- Perevolochna
- Sweden proper (including Finland)
- Helsingborg
- (2nd Viborg
- Helsinki
- Pälkäne
- Napue)
- Gothenburg
- Göta Älv
- Strömstad
- Marstrand
- Stäket
- Moldavia
- Swedish German dominions
- Mecklenburg and Holstein-Gottorp
- Naval battles
- Køge Bay
- Fladstrand
- Hogland
- Gangut
- Fehmarn
- Rügen
- Ösel
- Grengam
- Treaties
Battle of Hummelshof took place on July 19, 1702 (O.S.) near the small town Hummelshof in Swedish Livonia (present-day Estonia). It was the second significant Russian victory in the Great Northern War in which a Russian army under Boris Sheremetev attacked a much smaller force under Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach and defeated it after experiencing similar casualties to the Swedes. This was a final blow to the Swedish force defending Livonia and the defeat left it fully open to Russian attacks.
References
- ^ Sundberg (2010). Sveriges krig 1630-1814. p. 222.
- ^ a b c Northern Wars, Oskar Sjöström[dead link]
- ^ a b c Gordon A. The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: To which is Prefixed a Short General History of the Country from the Rise of that Monarchy: and an Account of the Author's Life, Volume 1. Aberdeen. 1755. pp. 165–168
- ^ Егоршина 2023, p. 45.
- ^ Boris Grigorjev & Aleksandr Bespalov (2012). Kampen mot övermakten. Baltikums fall 1700–1710. p. 111.
Bibliography
- Егоршина, Петрова (2023). История русской армии [The history of the Russian Army] (in Russian). Moscow: Edition of the Russian Imperial Library. ISBN 978-5-699-42397-2.
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