Siege of Narva (1704)

Siege of Narva (1704)
	Part of the Great Northern War
	; Taking of Narva by Alexander Kotzebue
Date	27 June — 9 August, 1704
Location	Narva, Swedish Empire (present-day Estonia)59°22′45″N 28°12′02″E / 59.37917°N 28.20056°E
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Henning Rudolf Horn (POW)	Peter I ; Georg Benedict
Strength
3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry	20,000
Casualties and losses
3,200 dead or wounded 1,900 captured	up to 3,000 dead or wounded

The siege of Narva (Russian: Осада Нарвы, Swedish: Belägringen av Narva), also known as the Second Battle of Narva, was the second Russian siege of Swedish Narva during the Great Northern War from 27 June to 9 August 1704.^[3]

The siege came four years after the 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.^[1]^: 697 Marshal Boris Sheremetev's force of 20,000 captured Tartu on 24 June and then Russian forces led by Georg Benedict 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.^[1]^: 697 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.^[1]^: 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.^[2]

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.^[4]

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Tucker, S.C., 2010, A Global Chronology of Conflict, Vol. Two, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC, ISBN 9781851096671
^ ^a ^b Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, с. 376
^ Dupuy, Richard Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt (1986). The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present (2 ed.). Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-181235-8.
^ Петров А.В. Город Нарва, его прошлое и достопримечательности. СПб, 1901, с. 175

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Names of the Russian Generals, who command at the siege of Narva, 1704, and specification of the regiments employed (in Russian)

[Tucker-1] Tucker, S.C., 2010, A Global Chronology of Conflict, Vol. Two, Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, LLC, ISBN 9781851096671

[Лексикон-2] Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, с. 376

[3] Dupuy, Richard Ernest; Dupuy, Trevor Nevitt (1986). The encyclopedia of military history from 3500 B.C. to the present (2 ed.). Harper & Row. ISBN 0-06-181235-8.

[4] Петров А.В. Город Нарва, его прошлое и достопримечательности. СПб, 1901, с. 175

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