Battle of Sokolki

Battle of Sokolka Part of the Great Northern War Date April 12, 1709 (O.S.) April 13, 1709 (Swedish calendar) April 23, 1709 (N.S.)[1] Location Sokolka ru:Левобережная_Соколка_(Кобелякский_район) at the Vorskla River, Ukraine Result Swedish strategic failure, main part of the Russian force managed to escape Belligerents Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia Commanders and leaders Carl Gustaf Kruse Karl Evald von Rönne Strength 3,000 Swedish[1] 3,000 cossacks 7,000 men[1] Casualties and losses 290 1,400[1]

Great Northern War Campaigns Denmark Russia and the Baltic provinces Poland-Lithuania/Saxony Ottoman Empire Sweden and Northern Germany Norway Finland Battles 1st Riga 1st Tönning Humlebæk 1st Narva Petschora Düna Rauge Erastfer Druskininkai Vilnius Klissow Hummelshof Nöteborg Saladen Pultusk Systerbäck Wesenberg Thorn Jakobstadt Posen 2nd Narva Punitz Gemauerthof Warsaw Praga 1st Grodno Fraustadt Kletsk Kalisz 2nd Grodno Holowczyn Neva Malatitze Rajovka Lesnaya Desna Koniecpol Veprik Oposhnya Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye Sokolki Poltava Perevolochna 2nd Riga 2nd Vyborg Pruth Campaign Helsingborg Køge Bay Gadebusch 2nd Tönning Bender Finland Hogland Pälkäne Storkyro Gangut Stralsund Fehmarn Rügen Stresow Dynekilen Göteborg Strömstad Fredriksten Carolean Death March Ösel Stäket Grengam Treaties Charles XII invasion of Russia Grodno II Holowczyn Neva Malatitze Rajovka Lesnaya Desna Baturyn Koniecpol Veprik Oposhnya Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye Sokolki Poltava Perevolochna

The Battle of Sokolka took place on April 23, 1709 near the town of Poltava, Ukraine during the ninth year of the Great Northern War. The Swedish army of close to 3,000 cavalry under the command of Carl Gustaf Kruse defeated a Russian force of about 7,000 men under Karl Evald von Rönne. The battle was one of the encounters shortly before the decisive battle of Poltava which would seriously cripple the Swedish chances of victory in the war.^[1]

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Harold Oscar Prytz (1867). Historiska upplysningar om Svenska och Norska arméernas regementer och kårer jemte flottorna under ledning. pp. 326.

Literature

• Peter From, Katastrofen vid Poltava (2007), Lund, Historiska media.