What the records say
- When
- 29 Oct 1706
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 51.76° N, 18.08° E
- Description
- 1706 battle
Battle of Kalisz
Battle in the Great Northern War
The Battle of Kalisz took place on 29 October 1706 in Kalisz, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Great Northern War. The battle was fought between an anti-Swedish army of Russians, Saxons and Poles led by Augustus the Strong and Russian general Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, and a Swedish–Polish–Lithuanian army headed by colonel Arvid Axel Mardefelt, loyal to Stanisław Leszczyński.
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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 “Swedish defeat in the Battle of Kalisz”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Schwedisch-polnische Truppen erleiden während des Großen Nordischen Kriegs in der Schlacht bei Kalisch eine Niederlage gegen eine sächsisch-russische…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “18 (29) октября — Сражение под Калишем, где русско-польско-саксонские войска нанесли крупное поражение шведам и полякам сторонникам Станислава Лещинского (27…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page