Battle of Fraustadt

When

13 Feb 1706

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

51.80° N, 16.32° E

Description

1706 battle of the Great Northern War

Part of the Great Northern War (1706)

The Battle of Fraustadt was fought on 2 February 1706 (O.S.) / 3 February 1706 / 13 February 1706 (N.S.) near Fraustadt, now Wschowa, Poland, during the Great Northern War. A Swedish army under Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld defeated a larger Saxon–Russian force commanded by Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg, consisting of troops from Saxony, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, German mercenaries, and the Tsardom of Russia…

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• Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Great Northern War – Battle of Fraustadt: Outnumbered more than 4 to 1 in infantry troops, and more than 2 to 1 overall”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “In der Schlacht bei Fraustadt gelingt den Schweden unter Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld im Großen Nordischen Krieg ein großer Sieg über das sächsisch-russische Heer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “victoire suédoise de Rehnskiöld sur les Russes et les Saxons de Schulenburg lors de la bataille de Fraustadt (Fraustadt-sur-l’Oder)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в битве при Фрауштадте в ходе Северной войны шведская армия Карла Густава Реншельда нанесла сокрушительное поражение саксонско—русской армии Иоганна Маттиаса…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page