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'This victory', exulted Peter the Great, 'has laid the final stone in the foundations of St Petersburg!' The Battle of Poltava, 1709, marks the birth of the Tsar's vast Russian Empire. In 1700, seeking to open Russian trade routes to the West, the Tsar combined with Denmark, Saxony and Poland to attack Swedish hegemony in the North. Against the odds, King Charles XII of Sweden subdued the hostile coalition for nearly a decade, but in 1708 took his fatal decision to march for Moscow. His defeat at Poltava, in the Ukraine, proved the turning-point of the Great Northern War, heralding the collapse of the Swedish Empire and the rise of Russia, the effects of which would be felt for almost three hundred years. Swedish historian Peter Englund's vivid account of the three violent days of battle is an internationally acclaimed classic of military history, admired by scholars and the lay reader alike.
Contents
Introduction
PROLOGUE
The Stoat
THE MARCH
Sunday Morning
The Road to Poltava
The War
The Campaign
Anatomy of a Battlefield
A Council of War
Sunday Evening
THE BATTLE
8. Let Us Go Forward
9. Give the Enemy No Time
10. Cavalry Forward!! Shot in Vain
11. Would God Roos Were Here
12. They Are Leaving Their Lines
13. Not My Men but the King's
14. Sheep to Sacrifical Slaughter
15. No Musket-ball Will Hit
16. As Grass Before a Scythe
17. The Devil Couldn't Make them
18. It Goes Ill
19. He Tramples Down
20. All is Lost
21. To Gather in Retreat
22. Bodies Mountain-High
THE RETREAT
23. 100,000 Roubles
24. Fight at My Command
25. Would They Defend Themselves
26. Not Without Tears
EPILOGUE
27. A Fist Filled with Soil
Sources and Literature
Biographical Appendix
Index
