Siege of Riga (1700)

Siege of Riga (1700)
	Part of Great Northern War
	; Bombardment of Riga (Broces collection 1700).
Date	February 11, 1700 (O.S.); February 12, 1700 (Swedish calendar); February 22, 1700 (N.S.)
Location	Riga, Swedish Livonia (present-day Latvia)56°57′00″N 24°6′00″E / 56.95000°N 24.10000°ECoordinates: 56°57′00″N 24°6′00″E / 56.95000°N 24.10000°E
Result	Swedish victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Saxony
Commanders and leaders
Erik Dahlbergh	Augustus II the Strong
Strength
4,000 men	18,000 men

The Sieges of Riga were two sieges which took place on February 22 and June 15, 1700 in Riga^[1]^: 687 during the Great Northern War. The Swedish garrison of about 4,000 men under the command of Erik Dahlberg successfully repulsed the Saxons until the main Swedish army under Charles XII of Sweden arrived to sweep the Saxons away in the battle of Riga which ended the period of sieges for the year.

The successful attempt to take the city from Sweden was made in the siege of Riga (1710) by the Russians under Peter the Great.

References[]

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

Anders Fryxell: Lebensgeschichte Karl's des Zwölften, Königs von Schweden. Band 1, Zweiter Abschnitt, 16. Kapitel, Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, Braunschweig 1861.
Hochspringen ↑ Heinz von Zur Mühlen: Baltisches historisches Ortslexikon, Band 2, Köln 1990, S. 132.
Hochspringen ↑ Knut Lundblad, Georg Friedrich Jenssen-Tusch: Geschichte Karl des Zwölften, Königs von Schweden, Band 1, Hamburg 1835, S. 41–55.
Olle Larsson, Stormaktens sista krig (2009) Lund, Historiska Media. Sida 86. ISBN 978-91-85873-59-3

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

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