The Great Northern War Compendium
edited by Stephen L. Kling, Jr.
The Great Northern War was a profound event in European history and has had far too little attention in the English speaking world. This publication is intended to open up this history in a way previously not available in English. An international team of academics, authors, and other experts have written articles on the armies, battles, campaigns, events and major personalities of the war. Over 70 articles are included, all fully illustrated in color. As the authors are from a number of different countries, a unique international perspective is provided in the articles. Rich historic detail is included which will be of interest to both those new to and well acquainted with this history.
Contents
VOLUME ONE
A Collision of Northern Giants
EINAR LYTH and STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
An Overview of Swedish Tactics in the Great Northern War
EINAR LYTH
The Dano-Norwegian Army of the Great Northern War
KJELD HALD GALSTER
The First Foray: The Landing at Humlebaek 1700
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Lithuanian Civil War and the Resulting Swedish-Sapeiha Relations
GRZEGORZ SZYMBORSKI
The Army of Holstein-Gottorp in the Great Northern War
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Swedish Fortifications at the Beginning of the Great Northern War
ULF SUNDBERG
Saxon General Johann Matthias Schulenburg
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Peter the Great and his Door to the West
HELEN LASSBROOK
Fighting During Logistics: The Swedish Experience
MAGNUS PERLESTAM
The Once Glorious and Powerful Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Army
MICHAL PARADOWSKI
Polish-Lithuanian Pancerni Cavalry of the Great Northern War
DARIUS T. WIELEC
The Battle of Narva 1700
KATARZYNA WAGNER
The Battle of the Duna River Crossing in 1701
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Passions of Augustus the Strong of Saxony
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Swedish Army of the Great Northern War
ORJAN MARTINSSON
The Swedish Occupation of Vilnius and Easter Day Battle
GINTAUTAS SLIESORIUNAS
The Battle of Kliszow 1702
ALEXANDER QUERENGASSER
Siege Operations of the Great Northern War
BORIS MEGORSKY
The Battle of Poniec (Punitz) 1704
DAMIAN PLOWY
The Russian Campaign in Courland in 1705
VLADIMIR VELIKANOV AND SERGEI MEKHNEV
Chaplains and Pastoral Care in the Swedish Army
DAVID GUDMUNDSSON
Warsaw, Fraustadt and the Grand Plan to Crush Charles XII
OSKAR SJOSTROM AND STEPHEN L. KLING, JR
Stanislaus Leszczynksi: A Controversial King
URSZULA KOSIŃSKA
The Battle of Kalisz 1706
ZBIGNIEW CHMIEL
The Bulavin Rebellion 1707-08
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
On the Road to Moscow: The Battle of Holowczyn 1708
NICHOLAS DORRELL
Peter the Great’s “Cossack Fist”during the Swedish Invasion
SERGEY IVANYUK
The Saxon Army in the Great Northern War
ALEXANDER QUERENGASSER
The Horse Master, Swedish Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiold
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Battle of Lesnaya 1708
EINAR LYTH
His Majesty’s Talented Subject: The Life and Fortunes of Poul Vendelboe de Lovenorn
JENS KRISTIAN BOLL
The Battle of Koniecpol 1708
LUKASZ PABICH
Sweden’s Cossack Allies during the Great Northern War
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Fortifications and Siege of Poltava
SERGEY IVANYUK and STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
VOLUME TWO
Decision in the Ukraine: The Battle of Poltava 1709
EINAR LYTH
The Lost Battalions of Roos at Poltava
ORJAN MARTINSSON
The Emergence of the Russian Army
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Frederik IV, King of Denmark
KARL-ERIK FRANDSEN and STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Siege of Riga 1709-1710
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Great Northern War’s Plague Epidemic
KARL-ERIK FRANDSEN
The Goals and Ambitions of the Danish Empire during the Great Northern War
MICHAEL BREGNSBO
Helsingborg and the Invasions of Scania
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Siege of Vyborg and its Swedish Garrison
ALEXEY MELNOV
Ukrainian Cossack Forces in the Great Northern War
SERGEY SHKVAROV
The Ottoman Army In the Great Northern War
CHRISTOPHER FLAHERTY
Drill Manuals and Tactical Instructions of the Russian Army
BORIS MEGORSKY
The Debacle on the Prut River 1711
BRIAN DAVIES
Magnus Stenbock and the Descent on Northern Germany
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Battle of Krotoszyn 1712
MAREK WAGNER
Wismar, the Battle and the Sieges
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Peter Wessel Tordenskiold: A Dano-Norwegian Hero from the Great Northern War
DAN H. ANDERSEN
The Russian Conquest of Finland 1713-14
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Uproar at Bender
MICHAEL GLAESER
Cultural Interlude: The Cornelius Loos Expedition and from Constantinople to Mecca
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Frederick William I and Prussia’s Involvement in the Great Northern War
STEPHEN SUMMERFIELD and STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Cossacks in Finland and Sweden (The Great Wrath)1710-1721
SERGEY SHKVAROV
The Swedish Jacobite Plot
COSTEL COROBAN
The Electorate of Hanover and its Army during the Great Northern War
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Battle of Fehmarn and the Historical and Archeological Records
JENS AUER
“Is God Not on My Side Anymore?” (The Battle of Stresow, 1715)
JENS KRISTIAN BOLL
Stefan Lofving: Finnish Partisan, Spy and Guerrilla
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, Russia’s Field Marshal
EKATERINA ANDREEVA
Battles of the Tarnogrod Confederation 1715-1717
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Death of Charles XII: An Eternal Mystery?
BENGT NILSSON
The Last Campaign of Charles XII and the Carolean Death March
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Battle of Staket 1719
GORAN BJORKMAN
Naval Operations during the Great Northern War
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
The Prussian Army of the Great Northern War
STEPHEN SUMMERFIELD
Swedish Prisoners of War in Russia during the Great Northern War
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.
Could Sweden Have Won the War with a Victory at Poltava: A Study in Counterfactual Military History
JUSSI JALONEN
Casting Charles XII: Hero, Scapegoat, or Madman?
MICHAEL GLAESER
Museums, Reenactment Groups, Historical Games, Miniatures and Modeling
STEPHEN L. KLING, JR.