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Encyclopedia > Battle of Storkyro
Battle of Storkyro
Part of Great Northern War
Date February 19, 1714
Location Napue, Finland
Result Russian victory
Combatants
Sweden Russia
Commanders
Carl Gustaf Armfeldt Mikhail Golitsyn
Strength
4,500 9,000
Casualties
1,600 dead
900 wounded
1,800-2,000 dead or wounded
Great Northern War
NarvaDaugava – Kliszów – GemauerthofFraustadtHolowczynLesnayaPoltavaHelsingborgGadebuschStorkyroGangutStralsundDynekilenÖsel – Stäket – Grengam

The battle of Storkyro was fought on February 19, 1714 near the village Napue, Finland between a Swedish and a Russian army, as part of the Great Northern War. The Swedes were horribly beaten by the numerically superior Russians. As a result, for the remainder of the war Finland was completely helpless against a Russian occupation, a period of hardship remembered in Finland as the Greater Wrath (Swedish:Stora ofreden). Combatants Sweden Ottoman Empire (1710–1714) Russia Denmark-Norway Poland-Lithuania Saxony later also Prussia, Hanover Commanders Charles XII of Sweden Ahmed III Peter the Great Augustus II the Strong Frederick IV of Denmark Strength 77,000 in the beginning of the war. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Battle of Gangut, by Maurice Baquoi, 1724-27. ... Peter I permitted the Galitzines to take an emblem of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania as their coat of arms The Galitzines, more correctly the Golitsyns (Russian: Голицын), are one of the largest and noblest princely houses of Russia. ... Combatants Sweden Ottoman Empire (1710–1714) Russia Denmark-Norway Poland-Lithuania Saxony later also Prussia, Hanover Commanders Charles XII of Sweden Ahmed III Peter the Great Augustus II the Strong Frederick IV of Denmark Strength 77,000 in the beginning of the war. ... Combatants Sweden Russia Commanders King Charles XII of Sweden Field Marshal Charles Eugène de Croy Strength 10,640 about 37,000 Casualties 667 killed 15,000 killed or drowned the rest surrendered For other Battles of Narva, see Battle of Narva (disambiguation). ... Combatants Sweden Saxony/Russia Commanders Charles XII August II Adam Heinrich von Steinau Strength 7,000 in the first wave of attack Russians 10,000 Saxons 9,000 Casualties 100 wounded - 400 KIA 2,000 KIA The Crossing of the Daugava on July 9, 1701 was the Swedish push into... Combatants Sweden Poland,Saxony Commanders Charles XII August II the Strong Strength 20 000, 20 000, Casualties 1000 2000 {{{notes}}} Battle of Kliszów took place on July 19 1702 in MaÅ‚opolska during Great Northern War. ... Combatants Sweden Russia Commanders Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt Boris Sheremetyev Strength about 5,500 about 10,000 Casualties 800 killed, 1000 wounded 2000-6000 killed Battle of Gemauerthof was a battle in the Great Nordic War. ... 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 Battle of Lesnaya was one of the decisive battles of the Great Northern War. ... Combatants Sweden Russia Commanders Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld # Peter the Great Strength 17,000 troops attacking, 8,000 besieging Poltava 42,000–45,000 troops, 72 cannons Casualties 6,900 killed or wounded, 2,800 prisoners 1,345 killed 3,200 wounded The Battle of Poltava (or Pultowa) was a... Combatants Sweden Denmark Commanders Magnus Stenbock Jørgen Rantzau Strength 14,000 14,000 Casualties 800 dead, 2,000 wounded 5,000 dead 2,500 captured In the Battle of Helsingborg (February 28, 1710) 14,000 Danish invaders under Jørgen Rantzau was decisively defeated by an equally large Swedish... The Battle of Gadebusch was Swedens final great victory in the Great Northern War. ... 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. ... Combatants Denmark Prussia Sweden Commanders Frederick IV Frederick William III Charles XII Strength 36,000 soldiers Unknown Casualties Unknown Charles XII was wounded. ... 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. ... This battle took place 4 June 1719, during the Great Northern War. ... Combatants Sweden Russia Commanders Frederick of Hessen-Kassel Carl Gustaf Dücker Rutger Fuchs Count Fyodor Matveyevich Apraksin Strength about 1,200 3,000 Casualties 100 killed or wounded about 500 killed or wounded The Battle of Stäket was a minor battle during the Great Northern War. ... The Battle of Grengam of 1720 was a major battle in the Great Northern War that marked the end of Swedish supremacy in the Baltic waters. ... February 19 is the 50th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Battle of Gangut, by Maurice Baquoi, 1724-27. ... Combatants Sweden Ottoman Empire (1710–1714) Russia Denmark-Norway Poland-Lithuania Saxony later also Prussia, Hanover Commanders Charles XII of Sweden Ahmed III Peter the Great Augustus II the Strong Frederick IV of Denmark Strength 77,000 in the beginning of the war. ... Belligerent military occupation occurs when one nations military occupies all or part of the territory of another nation or recognized belligerent. ... The Swedish Victory at Narva, 1700 by Gustaf Cederström, painted 1910 Battle of Poltava as painted by Denis Martens the Younger in 1726 The Great Northern War was the war fought between a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Saxony-Poland (from 1715 also Prussia and Hanover) on one...



 
 

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