What the records say
- When
- 10 Sep 1708
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 53.86° N, 31.54° E
- Description
- 1708 battle
Battle of Malatitze
Battle in the Great Northern War
The Battle of Molyatichi, also known as the Battle of Dobroye, took place on 31 August 1708 at Molyatichi during the Great Northern War. The Russian army of Peter the Great under the command of Mikhail Golitsyn launched a surprise attack on the isolated vanguard of Charles XII's Swedish Army, under the direct command of Carl Gustaf Roos, in order to destroy it.
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- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Großen Nordischen Krieg gelingt es der zaristischen Armee in der Schlacht bei Moljatitschi nicht, das kleinere schwedische Heer heimwärts zu vertreiben”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page