Evacuation of Kolkanpää

Battle of Kolkanpää
	Part of Great Northern War
Date	October 16, 1708 (O.S.); October 17, 1708 (Swedish calendar); October 27, 1708 (N.S.)
Location	, Swedish Empire,; present-day Russia
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
	Fyodor Apraksin
Strength
600–800 men	3,000–3,500 men
Casualties and losses
600–800 killed, wounded and captured	50 killed,; 220 wounded

The Evacuation of Kolkanpää took place between October 18 and 27, 1708, close to , in the Swedish Empire during the Great Northern War. The Swedes under the command of Georg Lybecker were evacuating their Finnish-based army consisting of up to 11,279 men back to Finland after their failed campaign in Swedish Ingria in an attempt to recover land previously lost to Russia.^[4] Fyodor Apraksin, the Russian commander in the area, decided to interrupt the evacuation with between 3,000 and 3,500 men.^[2] He decided to wait until only a portion, between 600 and 800 Saxon ex-prisoners recruited into Swedish service, remained on the beaches not yet evacuated before commencing attack with all his troops.^[1] After several assaults the Saxons were soon overwhelmed and almost all of them were cut down or captured by the end of the battle.^[4] About 50 Russians were killed and 220 wounded.^[3] The Swedes were also forced to slaughter about 4,000 of their horses which could not be evacuated so they would not fall into Russian hands.^[1]

References[]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Christer Kuvaja. Krigen kring Östersjön, del 4: Karolinska krigare 1660–1721. Schildts Förlags Ab, Helsingfors, 2008. p. 186
^ ^a ^b Dorrell, Nicholas. The Dawn of the Tsarist Empire: Poltava & the Russian Campaigns of 1708—1709, Partizan Press (2009). p. 126
^ ^a ^b ПОЛКОВОДЦЫ ПЕТРА I: Шереметев Борис Петрович Апраксин Федор Матвеевич Боур Родион Христианович Репнин Никита Иванович Брюс Яков Виллимович Меншиков Александр Данилович Голицын Михаил Михайлович
^ ^a ^b Peter From, Katastrofen vid Poltava. Lund (2007). pp. 183–184

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[Christer_Kuvaja-1] Christer Kuvaja. Krigen kring Östersjön, del 4: Karolinska krigare 1660–1721. Schildts Förlags Ab, Helsingfors, 2008. p. 186

[dorrell-2] Dorrell, Nicholas. The Dawn of the Tsarist Empire: Poltava & the Russian Campaigns of 1708—1709, Partizan Press (2009). p. 126

[coollib.net-3] ПОЛКОВОДЦЫ ПЕТРА I: Шереметев Борис Петрович Апраксин Федор Матвеевич Боур Родион Христианович Репнин Никита Иванович Брюс Яков Виллимович Меншиков Александр Данилович Голицын Михаил Михайлович

[From-4] Peter From, Katastrofen vid Poltava. Lund (2007). pp. 183–184

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