| Battle of Erastfer | |||||||
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| Part of the Great Northern War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Swedish Empire |
 Tsardom of Russia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach | Boris Sheremetev | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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2,200 men[1] 6 artillery pieces[1] |
18,800 men[2] 20 artillery pieces[2] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 600[3] | 1,000[2] | ||||||
The battle of Erastfer (also Battle of Errestfer, Battle of Erastvere) took place on 29 December 1701 (O.S.) / 30 December 1701 (Swedish calendar) / 9 January / 1702 (N.S.) near Erastfer in eastern Swedish Livonia (present-day Erastvere in Estonia) between a Russian force of 18,800 men led by general Boris Sheremetev and a Swedish force of around 2,200 under the command of Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach. The Swedes were defeated, with a loss of 600 men, 150–370 of them captured with all their artillery pieces lost.[2][3] The Russians sustained about 1,000 killed.[2] It was the first significant Russian victory in the Great Northern War. The Swedish commander Schlippenbach managed to escape from the battlefield with about 1,600 remaining Swedish soldiers.[3][4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Northern wars, armies of Erastfer, Oskar Sjöström
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Peter the Great's Unknown War, Vjatšeslav Krassikov
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Peter Ullgren, Det stora nordiska kriget 1700-1721 (2008) Stockholm, Prisma. p. 88. ISBN 978-91-518-5107-5
- ↑ History of War:Battle of Erastfer
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