Battle of Systerbäck

Battle of Systerbäck Part of Great Northern War Date July 8, 1703 (O.S.) July 9, 1703 (Swedish calendar) July 19, 1703 (N.S.) Location Sestra River, Russia Result Russian victory Belligerents Swedish Empire Tsardom of Russia Commanders and leaders Abraham Cronhjort Boris Sheremetev Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov Strength 4,000 men 25,000 men of which 7,000–8,000 engaged Casualties and losses 390 killed and wounded[1] 150 killed and wounded[2]

Great Northern War Campaigns Denmark Russia and the Baltic provinces Poland-Lithuania/Saxony Ottoman Empire Sweden and Northern Germany Norway Finland Battles 1st Riga 1st Tönning Humlebæk Varja 1st Narva Petschora Düna Rauge Erastfer Darsūniškis Vilnius Kliszów Hummelshof Nöteborg Saladen Pultusk Systerbäck Wesenberg Thorn Jakobstadt Posen 2nd Narva Punitz Gemauerthof Warsaw Praga 1st Grodno Fraustadt Olkieniki Kletsk Kalisz 2nd Grodno Holowczyn Neva Malatitze Rajovka Koporye Lesnaya Kolkanpää Desna Koniecpol Veprik Oposhnya Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye Sokolki Poltava Perevolochna 2nd Riga 2nd Vyborg Pruth Campaign Helsingborg Køge Bay Wismar Gadebusch 2nd Tönning Bender Finland Battle of Fladstrand Hogland Pälkäne Storkyro Gangut Stralsund Fehmarn Rügen Stresow Dynekilen Göteborg Strömstad Fredriksten Carolean Death March Ösel Stäket Grengam Treaties

The Battle of Systerbäck took place on July 19, 1703 near the Sestra River during the Great Northern War. The Swedish army under the command of Abraham Cronhjort had to pull back to escape encirclement of the much larger Russian force under Boris Sheremetev. The two sides estimated their losses to 390 Swedish dead and wounded and 150 Russians dead and wounded.^[1]

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Coordinates: 60°07′16″N 29°58′41″E / 60.12111°N 29.97806°E / 60.12111; 29.97806