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Siege of Pärnu

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The Polish–Lithuanian miners blew up three of the main gates of the city and Lithuanian troops fought their way to the city's center. When the Polish troops began setting fire to the gate of the town's fortress, to which the remaining Swedish troops had withdrawn, the Swedish garrison threw the keys to the gate out of the window as a signal of surrender.
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Chodkiewicz then, feigning a withdrawal, hid his forces in nearby woods forbidding his soldiers to even light camp fires, despite the freezing cold of the Estonian winter. After a night's wait he raised his troops and marched them back against the city and this time managed to surprise the defenders.
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by surprise. Chodkiewicz's forces arrived on February 28, 1609 but when his troops tried to creep up to the city's walls unnoticed the Swedish garrison fired their cannons which established that a surprise attack was not going to work.
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of Sweden later accused Daniel von Wochen of collaborating with the Poles, which he believed was the reason for the surrender. Wochen was then arrested, sentenced to death, and executed.
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mercenaries, subsequently switched sides and joined Chodkiewicz's troops. After capturing the city, Chodkiewicz left 200 infantry in Pärnu, and began a march towards
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100, another 300 were taken prisoner of which 155 switched sides after the battle.
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1609 military conflict in Estonia during Polish-Swedish War
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Index

Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)

Pärnu
Livonia
Estonia
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Sweden
Sweden
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
Polish–Swedish War (1600–1611)
hetman
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz
Birże
Estonia
Daugavgrīva
Latvia
Daniel von Wochen
Scottish
Riga
Salacgrīva
Charles IX
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Polish–Swedish War
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