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Peter the Great defeats the Swedes at the Battle of Lesnaya.
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Peter the Great
Tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725
Peter I, better known as Peter the Great, was the Tsar of all Russia from 1682 and the first Emperor of all Russia from 1721 until his death in 1725. He reigned jointly with his half-brother Ivan V until 1696. From this year, Peter was an absolute monarch, an autocrat who…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Battle of Lesnaya
1708 battle of the Great Northern War
The Battle of Lesnaya was one of the major battles of the Great Northern War. It took place on October 9 [O.S. September 28] 1708 between a Russian army of between 17,000 and 29,000 men commanded by Peter I of Russia, Mikhail Mikhailovich Golitsyn, Aleksandr Danilovich…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)