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In addition, Cossacks controlled a largely self-governing territory known as the Hetmanate.
By the Treaty of Nystad (September 10, 1721), which concluded the war between Sweden and Russia, Sweden ceded Ingria, Estonia, Livonia, and a strip of Finnish Karelia to Russia.
Taking advantage of Russia’s war with Turkey, he declared war on Russia in 1788.
The Sandomierz Confederation was a confederation formed on May 20, 1704 in defense of the King of Poland, August II the Strong. It was formed in reaction to the Warsaw Confederation.
Peeter I otsis baltisaksa rahvusvähemuse, eriti aadelkonna toetust. Mõisad tagastati endistele valdajatele, ka mõnele Rootsist tagasi tulnud rootsi aadliperekonnale. Riigi kätte läinud maavaldusi läänistati kohalikele aadlikele ja Vene võimukandjatele. Peeter I andis (1710, 1723) Balti aadlile Vene aadli õigused, vabastades nad pealegi teenistuskohustusest.
Raudpea ajal lasti Kärde mäelt Laiuse loss puruks.
Sweden was no longer the dominant power over the Baltic Sea. That now belonged to Russia.
The "Iron Head," as the Turks called him from his obstinacy.
As Peter withdrew, he used a scorched earth policy destroying anything that might be of value to an advancing army.
Faced with the superior firepower of the Swedish fleet Apraksin withdrew east to Tvärminne, at the south east corner of the peninsula. From there he called for help from the Tsar.
The galleys were gradually overwhelmed, surrounded and boarded. The Elefant was soon isolated. Surrounded, she was boarded from all sides and her crew overwhelmed.
Frederick I started the process of strengthening the Prussian army, which in 1721 shared in a victory against Sweden that increased its territory.
After the victory of Gangut the Russian fleet, which now enjoyed free rein in the western skerries of Finland.
While the Sapieha, allied with Sweden, organized peasant troops to fight against the Oginski confederacy in the Dnieper region of Belarus, the latter, with Russian support, devastated the Sapiehas” lands.
hus, on December 19, the Elector announced the ratification of the Altranstadt Peace Treaty between Sweden and Saxony.
because the Confederation had little military significance, and its troops could at most disrupt Swedish supplies.
June, and August 1707, he rejected several peace offers from the tsar, believing them to be a deceptive maneuver and wanting to make peace with Peter I only on his own terms. In fact, Russia was ready for peace and would have been satisfied with Ingermanland. However, the continuation of the war was forced upon it by the Swedish king.
As a Swedish diplomat phrased it, occupation of the Electorate would be the very means whereby `Saxony should be put out of condition for the future to assist King Augustus with men and money’.
As a Swedish diplomat phrased it, occupation of the Electorate would be the very means whereby `Saxony should be put out of condition for the future to assist King Augustus with men and money’.
In 1715 he reentered the Great Northern War against Sweden. But although this campaign resulted in the gain of a part of western Pomerania.
