Battle of Jēkabpils

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Battle of Jēkabpils
Part of the Great Northern War
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt (1659-1719).
Date July 25, 1704 (O.S.) July 26, 1704 (Swedish calendar) August 5, 1704 (N.S.) Location Jēkabpils / Jakobstadt, Polish Livonia, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (present day Jēkabpils, about 125 km southeast of Riga, Latvia) Result Swedish decisive victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Tsardom of Russia
Commanders
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt	Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński Korsak
Strength
About 3,000 Swedes, about 2,000 Lithuanians under Sapieha[1]	About 10,000 Lithuanians and Poles under Wiśniowiecki, about 3,500 Russians[1]
Casualties and losses
About 60 killed, about 180 wounded[1]	About 2,000 killed[1]

v • d • e Great Northern War Narva – Daugava – Erastfer – Kliszów – Pułtusk – Jēkabpils – Poznań – Punitz – Gemauerthof – Warsaw – Grodno – Fraustadt – Kalisz – Holowczyn – Malatitze – Lesnaya – Poltava – Perevolochna – Helsingborg – Gadebusch – Bender – Pälkäne – Storkyro – Gangut – Stralsund – Dynekilen – Ösel – Stäket – Grengam

The Battle of Jēkabpils (Swedish: Slaget vid Jakobstadt) was a battle in the Great Nordic War. It took place on July 25, 1704 (O.S.) / July 26, 1704 (Swedish calendar) / August 5, 1704 (N.S.) between a Swedish army under Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt and a combined Lithuanian/Russian force under Great Hetman Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki at the town of Jēkabpils (German: Jakobstadt) in Polish Livonia. The Swedes were victorious.

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• northernwars.com