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Battle of Varja

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about 200 Swedes with only 500 Russians who managed to escape. Later during the day, as the Swedes were looting the Russian supplies, a larger force of 3,000 men under Sheremetev himself, arrived and in turn surprised the Swedes who were driven off with a loss of 80 menand among them, the Swedish commander Georg Reinhold Patkul was captured during the retreat.
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detachment gathering supplies for their army at Narva. The Russians were caught completely off guard and subsequently took cover within the houses to avoid the Swedish onslaught, these were however, soon put on fire by the Swedes, an action resulting in 1,500 Russians killed, wounded or captured to
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The Russians here received important information about the approach of the Swedish main army under Charles, who arrived at the two villages about two weeks later. Sheremetev later faced the Swedish vanguard at
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Daniel Defoe. The History of the Wars, of His Late Majesty Charles XII, King of Sweden. H. P, 1720. pp. 60–61
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Kerala J. Snyder. The Organ As a Mirror of Its Time: North European Reflections, 1610–2000, 2002. p. 137
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Giovanni van Ghelen. Avvisi italiani, ordinarii e straordinarii, Volume 18. Vienna, 1701. p. 2.2
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At the villages of Varja and Aa they surprised a Russian force of 2,000 men from
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A Swedish force consisting of 800 men under the command of generals
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took place on November 7, 1700, close to the villages of
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Index

Great Northern War
O.S.
Swedish calendar
N.S.
Varja
Duchy of Estonia
Swedish Empire
Estonia
59°24′54″N 27°07′39″E / 59.415°N 27.1275°E / 59.415; 27.1275
aftermath
Swedish Empire
Swedish Empire
Tsardom of Russia
Tsardom of Russia
Swedish Empire
Georg Reinhold von Patkul
POW
Swedish Empire
Hans Henrik von Tiesenhausen
Tsardom of Russia
Boris Sheremetev
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Great Northern War
1st Tönning
Reinbek
Humlebæk
1st Riga
Varja

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