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{{Short description|1704 siege during the Great Northern War}}
{{Infobox Military Conflict▼
:''{{For |other Battles of Narva, see [[|Battle of Narva (disambiguation)]].''{{!}}Battle of Narva}}▼
|conflict=Battle of Narva▼
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2017}}
|partof=the [[Great Northern War]]▼
▲{{Infobox Militarymilitary Conflictconflict
|image=[[File:ZauerveydNA Petr1UsmirDA19.jpg|right|300px]]
▲| conflict =Battle Siege of Narva (1704)
|caption=Peter the Great leads the Russian troops capturing Narva in 1704
▲| partof = the [[Great Northern War]]
|date= 9 August 1704▼
|place image = [[File:Narva]] 1704.jpg
| image_size = 300px
|result=Russian victory▼
| caption = ''Taking of Narva'' by [[Alexander Kotzebue]]
|combatant1=[[Image:Naval Ensign of Sweden.svg|23px]] [[Swedish Empire]]▼
▲| date = 27 June — 9 August, 1704
|combatant2=[[Image:Flag of Russia.svg|23px]] [[Tsardom of Russia]]▼
| place = [[Narva]], [[Swedish Empire]] (present-day [[Estonia]])
|commander1=
| coordinates = {{coord|source:Wikidata|format=dms|display=it}}
|commander2=
▲| result = Russian victory
|strength1=3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry▼
▲| combatant1=[[Image:Naval Ensign of = {{flagicon|Sweden.svg|23px]]1562}} [[Swedish Empire]]
|strength2=45,000
▲| combatant2=[[Image:Flag of = {{flagicon|Russia.svg|23px]]Tsardom}} [[Tsardom of Russia]]
|casualties1=3,200 dead or wounded 1900 captured▼
| commander1 = {{flagicon|Sweden|1562}} Henning Rudolf Horn ([[POW]])
|casualties2=13,000 dead or seriously wounded{{Citation needed|date=April 2012}}
| commander2 = {{flagicon|Russia|Tsardom}} [[Peter the Great| Peter I]] <br>{{flagicon|Russia|Tsardom}} [[Georg Benedikt von Ogilvy|Georg von Ogilvy]]
▲| strength1 = 3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry
| 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 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 theJune capture of the town by Russia onto 9 August 1704 and the subsequent massacre of all Swedish inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dupuy, Richard Ernest|coauthorsauthor2=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>▼
▲:''For other Battles of Narva, see [[Battle of Narva (disambiguation)]].''
[[File:Крест 1704.jpg|thumb|200px||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 all Swedish inhabitants.<ref>{{cite book|last=Dupuy, Richard Ernest|coauthors=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>
 
== the Siege ==
Four years after the [[Battle of Narva (1700)|first battle of Narva]], [[Peter the Great|Tsar Peter]] marched again in an attempt to capture [[Narva]]. Peter marched with 45,000 men. The garrison of Narva was under the Commandant Major-General Henning Rudolf Horn af Ranzien and consisted of 3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry. The Russians made a three-fronted attack and after a long battle they took [[Narva]]. General Horn, several officers and a large number of Swedish soldiers were captured, with about 3,200 casualties. The Russians, though successful, also suffered heavy losses — 13,000 men in total, 8,000 of them in the assault.<ref name="hj">Carl XII:s historia, Del 1, Knut Lundblad. p.339</ref>
The siege came four years after the [[Battle of Narva (1700)|first battle of Narva]], where the Russians were defeated by a much smaller Swedish force defending the city. Tsar Peter I marched 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 and then Russian forces led by [[Georg Benedikt 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}}
Also in August, Peter I signed the [[Treaty of Narva]] in the town.
 
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 many 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>
 
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>
 
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==See also==
* [[Lovisa von Burghausen]]
* [[Brigitta Scherzenfeldt]]
* [http://www.milhist.info/2012/06/30/megorskiy_1/ Names of the Russian Generalls, who command at the Siege of Narva, 1704 & Specification of the Regiments employed in the Siege of Narva.]▼
* [[Anna Ivanovna Kramer]]
 
==References==
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==External links==
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▲* [http://www.milhist.info/2012/06/30/megorskiy_1/ Names of the Russian GenerallsGenerals, 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|200px380px|left|Memorial in [[Narva]]]]
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