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{{Short description|1704 siege during the Great Northern War}}
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{{For|other Battles of Narva|Battle of Narva (disambiguation){{!}}Battle of Narva}}
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{{Infobox Militarymilitary Conflictconflict
| conflict =Battle Siege of Narva (1704)
| partof = the [[Great Northern War]]
|image=[[File:ZauerveydNA Petr1UsmirDA19.jpg|right|300px]]
| image = File:Narva 1704.jpg
|caption=Peter the Great leads the Russian troops capturing Narva in 1704
| image_size = 300px
|date=27 June – 9 August 1704▼
| caption = ''Taking of Narva'' by [[Alexander Kotzebue]]
|place =[[Narva]]
▲| date = 27 June –— 9 August, 1704
|result=Russian victory▼
|combatant1=[[File:Naval Ensignplace of Sweden.svg|25px = [[Narva]], [[Swedish Empire]] (present-day [[Estonia]])
| coordinates = {{coord|source:Wikidata|format=dms|display=it}}
|combatant2=[[File:Flag of Russia.svg|20px]] [[Tsardom of Russia]]▼
▲| result = Russian victory
|commander1=
| combatant1 = {{flagicon|Sweden|1562}} [[Swedish Empire]]
|commander2=
▲| combatant2=[[File:Flag of = {{flagicon|Russia.svg|20px]]Tsardom}} [[Tsardom of Russia]]
|strength1=3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry▼
| commander1 = {{flagicon|Sweden|1562}} Henning Rudolf Horn ([[POW]])
|strength2=20,000<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}}
| commander2 = {{flagicon|Russia|Tsardom}} [[Peter the Great| Peter I]] <br>{{flagicon|Russia|Tsardom}} Georg Benedict
|casualties1=3,200 dead or wounded 1900 captured▼
▲| strength1 = 3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry
|casualties2=up to 3,000 dead or wounded<ref name="Лексикон">Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, с. 376</ref> ▼
| strength2 = 20,000<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}} - 45,000<ref>История русской армии.– Москва: Эксмо, 2023. – 768с.–(Подарочные издания. Российская императорская библиотека). IBSN 978-5-699-42397-2. P.47</ref>
▲| casualties1 = 3,200 dead or wounded 19001,900 captured
▲| casualties2 =up Up to 3,000 dead or wounded<ref name="Лексикон">Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, с. 376</ref>
}}
{{Campaignbox Great Northern War}}
 
The '''Siege of Narva''' ({{lang-ru|Осада Нарвы}}, {{lang-sv|Belägringen av Narva}}), also known as the '''Second Battle of Narva''', was the second [[Tsardom of Russia|Russian]] siege of [[Swedish Empire|Swedish]] [[Narva]] during the [[Great Northern War]], resultingfrom in27 the capture of theJune town by Russia onto 9 August 1704, and the subsequent massacre of some of its Swedish inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dupuy, Richard Ernest|author2=Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt|title=The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present |publisher=Harper & Row|date=1986|edition=2|isbn=0-06-181235-8}}</ref>▼
[[File:Крест 1704.jpg|thumb|380px|left|Memorial in [[Narva]]]]▼
▲The '''Battle of Narva''' was the second [[Tsardom of Russia|Russian]] siege of [[Swedish Empire|Swedish]] [[Narva]] during the [[Great Northern War]], resulting in the capture of the town by Russia on 9 August 1704, and the subsequent massacre of some of its Swedish inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dupuy, Richard Ernest|author2=Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt|title=The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present |publisher=Harper & Row|date=1986|edition=2|isbn=0-06-181235-8}}</ref>
 
FourThe siege came four years after the [[Battle of Narva (1700)|first battle of Narva]], [[Peterwhere the Great|Russians were defeated by a much smaller Swedish force defending the city. Tsar Peter I]] marched again to the area again with a reorganized army in an attempt to capture [[Narva]] and occupy [[Swedish Ingria]], previously a Swedish logistical center and territory ceded by Russia in 1617.<ref name=Tucker>Tucker, S.C., 2010, A Global Chronology of Conflict, Vol. Two, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC, {{ISBN|9781851096671}}</ref>{{rp|697}} Marshal [[Boris Sheremetev]]'s force of 20,000 captured [[Tartu]] on 24 June.<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}}and then SheremetevRussian forces led thenby Georg Benedict von Ogilvy besieged Narva, with the garrison under the Commandant Major-General Henning Rudolf Horn af Ranzien and consisting of only 3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry.<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}} After a long siege followed by a three-fronted attack, the Russians captured Narva on 20 August 1704, massacring hundreds of its Swedish garrison and inhabitants before Peter I stopped them.<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|69}} General Horn, several officers and a large number ofmany Swedish soldiers were captured, after roughly 3,200 casualties in the siege and aftermath. The Russians lost up to 3,000 men in total, with some estimates being over 10,000.<ref name="Лексикон">Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, с. 376</ref> On 11 September, citizens of Narva swore allegiance to Peter I in the courtyard of the town hall.<ref>Петров А.В. Город Нарва, его прошлое и достопримечательности. СПб, 1901, с. 175</ref> The city was incorporated into the Russian Tsardom.
 
In August, Peter I signed the [[Treaty of Narva]] in the town, aligning the [[Sandomierz Confederation]] faction of the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] with Russia against Sweden in the war.
 
On 11 September, the surviving citizens of Narva swore allegiance to Peter I in the courtyard of the town hall, and the city was incorporated into the Russian Tsardom.<ref>Петров А.В. Город Нарва, его прошлое и достопримечательности. СПб, 1901, с. 175</ref>
 
==See also==
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* [[Brigitta Scherzenfeldt]]
* [[Anna Ivanovna Kramer]]
* [http://www.milhist.info/2012/06/30/megorskiy_1/ Names of the Russian Generals, who command at the Siege of Narva, 1704 & Specification of the Regiments employed in the Siege of Narva.]▼
 
==References==
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==External links==
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▲* [http://www.milhist.info/2012/06/30/megorskiy_1/ Names of the Russian Generals, who command at the Siegesiege of Narva, 1704, &and Specificationspecification of the Regimentsregiments employed (in the Siege of Narva.Russian)]
 
▲[[File:Крест 1704.jpg|thumb|380px|left|Memorial in [[Narva]]]]
 
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