The Great Northern War was fought between Charles XII (Sweden), and Peter the Great (Russia). Before the start of the war, Sweden was very strong. And it occupied large amounts of land. When Peter the Great started his reign for Russia, he could not get to the Black Sea or the Baltic Sea. His goal was to gain access to those two seas. He desired a way to get to those seas, and the way he did it was because he made alliances. He made an alliance with Poland, and Denmark. Because of these alliances, this led to the beginning of The Great Northern War itself. During the cause and early stages of the war, Sweden began with a few wins in battle. The war started because Peter formed alliances with Saxony, Denmark, and Poland. Poland at that time …show more content…
had joined in a Saxony Union. These alliances happened to be the cause the Great Northern War itself, in 1700. At the start of the war, Sweden defeated Denmark, Saxony, and Russia twice, At the beginning of the eighteenth century, Sweden was a powerhouse , with a lot of success.
The military changes that were made and victories that Gustavus Adolphus had brought to the table left her as the dominant power in the Baltic. She led tours that resulted in defeat all around Northern Germany and the baltic. Augustus II of Poland, Peter the Great of Russia, and Frederick IV saw Sweden as a viable decision to attack because of the youngness of Charles XII, at sixteen years of age. Charles the Great answered to invasions of his very large plots of land. Charles responded with a gutsy invasion of Zealand, taking his army through treacherous seas and attacking Copenhagen, causing the Danes to retreat out of the war. Poland was invaded in 1701 by Charles the Great. In the battle of Dunamunde he defeated a Saxon and Russian army. Meanwhile, Charles still concentrated on Poland. In 1702 he captured Warsaw in May, in advance to battling …show more content…
Augustus. Charles the Great then made plans to invade Russia, after gaining control of Poland successfully. Charles prepared for the invasion he planned on Russia. Like so other many raiders, Charles came for sweet revenge on Russia. Charles crossed the tundra like Vistula with his army of 45,000 men, his largest army ever had made decent headway In 1708. Peter started a policy called the scorched earth policy. WHile he was slowly retreating from Sweden, he destroyed all crops and food of the swedish army. He also refused to battle the Swedes, and left them weak with no supplies or food. The army of Peter the Great had been ambushed and caused to greatly decline in numbers.
Peter had taken a dip in numbers from the Cossack revolt, and in 1708 he managed to take action of it, while later in 1708, the Swedish supply column of 11,000 men was defeated by a larger Russian army Only 6,000 troops from the column reached Charles, after having to destroy the desperately needed supplies. This left Charles stranded in Russia for the winter of 1708-9, one of the coldest ever in Europe. In 1708/9 Charles XII initiated his Russian campaign from Poland. He teamed up with the Cossacks to present to the Ukraine and advance on Moscow. The beginning of winter, grave illnesses and Russian raids weakened the Swedish forces, and Charles XII had to turn back. The Swedish and Russian armies went head to head in southern Ukraine where they fought a definite resulting battle in 1709 at Poltava. Peter personally prepared the battle. He made the the battlefield by the work of his engineers, who were ordered to raise supplementary paths of the Swedish troops to break their battle arrangements, and to split them into small groups. The battle ended in grave Swedish defeat and the wounded Swedish king had fled to
Turkey. The war takes yet another twist when Charles XII, still in Turkish Moldavia, convinces the Turks to declare war on Russia. An extremely strong Turkish army was sent to the outskirts of Russia. Peter the Great responded by invading Moldavia with 6in 1711, where he was punctually outsmarted by the Turks, who held him caught near the Pruth River. In, 1719 and 1720, the Russians used their new control of the Baltic Sea to repeatedly raid the mainland Sweden, and eventually the Swedes surrendered for peace. Sweden managed to negotiate decent terms with Saxony, Poland and Denmark, with a return to the state before war, although some of Swedish land was lost to Prussia. Although, peace with Russia was not made until the Treaty of Nystad in 1721 which was not very generous at all. Russia kept the majority of the Baltic coast , but returned Finland to Sweden, and was forced to pay an indemnity. The war left the equality of power in the Baltic permanently changed, with Russia coming out on top as a much bigger and greater European power, and Sweden not so much, staying at the more average level.
Observing that European technological superiority allowed it to enjoy extraordinary benefits, he adopted many European practices to assert his own dominance and increase Russia’s protection against its adversaries. In doing this, Peter the Great formed himself a lasting legacy. Although Peter the Great originally mimicked Louis XIV in his staunch practice of absolutism, he ultimately surpassed Louis XIV in his goal of supremacy. Peter replaced the previous head of the Orthodox Church, and had both religious and earthly supremacy. Thus, Peter achieved something that Louis could never manage: a control of both church and state. Outside of Russia’s borders, Peter succeeded in his endeavors to a much greater extent than Louis XIV. The Great Northern War against Sweden effectively gave Russia access to a warm water port: Saint Petersburg, where Peter created his own Versailles, the Winter Palace, that fulfilled goals similar to those of Louis. Thus, where Louis fell, Peter
The Civil War, beginning in 1861 and ending in 1865, was a notorious event in American history for many influential reasons. Among them was the war 's conclusive role in determining a united or divided American nation, its efforts to successfully abolish the slavery institution and bring victory to the northern states. This Civil War was first inspired by the unsettling differences that divided the northern and southern states over the power that resided in the hands of the national government to constrain slavery from taking place within the territories. There was only one victor in the Civil War. Due to the lack of resources, plethora of weaknesses, and disorganized leadership the Southern States possessed in comparison to the Northern States,
Thesis: The world today is blinded from the truth about the "Civil War" just like they are the truth of the creation vs. evolution debate. They're blinded in the same way as well, misleading text books. The truth is that the North, Lincoln, etc. weren't as great as they claimed to be, and that they went to illegal measures for an unjust cause.
Both monarchs had a royal background and were put in power with high expectations to continue the stability that the country possessed. Citizens aspire for all government officials to keep the peoples best interest in mind. But sadly, due to Ivan’s brutal childhood, he grew up observing and learning from the mannerisms of the corrupt elite. Ivan predominately gained power through fear and with this tactic was the first to exercise a despotism in Russia. One example of this is the story of the peasants who disturbed Ivan during one of his retreats. They came to him to complain of their governor who they believed was unjust but Ivan was so upset that they had troubled him with such a petty matter that he punished them. The men had their hands tied behind their backs, boiling hot alcohol poured on their heads and then their beards lit on fire with a candle. Apprehension and terror were Ivan’s main tools for keeping his people under control. Despite his totalitarian state of mind, Ivan believed that his decisions were still best for the country and the only way to keep it safe was by leaving it in constant fear. Although not always the most rational, the czar still made the suitable choices to keep the kingdom together. Similar to Ivan, Charles was not always under the influence of his mental disability. During his 42
There are various explanations as to who and what really caused the Civil War. It is even fair to say that sometimes morals stand in the way when deciding who really started the war. Therefore, the facts must be analyzed clearly and in depth. It is true that the north played a major role in the Civil War, however, the south would not release their strict traditional beliefs of slavery. As time progressed, slavery debates pressured the South more and more to stand by their strict beliefs. Fugitive acts, Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Secession all showed how the south used brutal methods to preserve slavery. Therefore, since the popular sovereignty doctrine, the pro-slavery souths’ strict use of slavery and decisions to secede from the nation, angered the north, leading to a civil war.
The main driving force behind Peter I’s consolidation of power and reformation of Russia was the goal of ultimately enhancing military efficiency, allowing Russia to become a world power. Throughout his reign, war raged on and became a huge part of daily life. Compulsory lifetime military
Why the North Won the Civil War, edited by David Herbert Donald, is a short collection of six essays. Each essay argues from a different perspective as to why the Confederate States of America could not defeat the Union in the American Civil War. The factors considered for Confederate defeat include: economics, military strategy, diplomacy, ideology, and politics. In the end, the most convincing argument is given by Richard N. Current regarding economics.
The French and Indian war, also better known as the seven year war, was in 1754. It all began in the early spring of 1754 through 1763, when George Washington and some 160 Virginians and hand full of Mingo Indians started to move when they were concerned about the French military presence in their county. The battle first started when a Mingo chief, the Indian leader that was with George Washington in his campaign, led a unit of soldiers into a small French encampment in the woods. It was a very small battle but, the fight ended up with 14 French men wounded. While Washington was trying to get all the available information from their French dying commander to help their plans in the war, the Indians killed and scalped the remaining survivors including the commander.
The War of 1812, also known as “America’s Forgotten War” and “America’s Worst Fought War,” was fought between the U.S. and Great Britain over violations of the U.S. seafaring rights. The British intrusion with American fur trade and their illegal impressment of seamen off American ships severely strained Anglo-American relations in the years before the war. According to the New Standard Encyclopedia, “There is considerable disagreement as to why this ultimately led to war and what this war represented. (W.30)” The strongest pressure of war came from Congressional leaders known as “the War Hawks” who mainly represented the western frontier and the South. Their main interest was the conquest of Canada and Florida. The British encouraged and supported the Tecumseh Indians, who had inflicted severe losses, to bring them the scalps of the American soldiers that ultimately led to the Massacre of Fort Dearborn on June 18th, 1812. The war ended with the treaty of Ghent. According to the “Just War Theory” outlined in this essay-- this war was an unjust war.
The war would originally begin in 1914 in Europe and the United States wasn’t involved until three years after the war began. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand on June 28th was one of the aspects that kick started the war. After the assassination on July 28th, Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia. Just days after war was declared between Serbia and Austria-Hungary, Germany would declare war on Russia and France. Germany and Russia were brought into the war due to Germany’s alliance with Austria-Hungary and Russia’s alliance with Serbia. Germany’s invasion of Belgium would draw Britain into the war.
Peter the Great had many goals during the time he ruled. One of his biggest goals was to modernize and westernize Russia. The main reason Peter the Great modernized Russia was because he did not want the country he ruled to be left vulnerable to expansionist powers in Europe. The powers were constantly at war, fighting to take over each other’...
The year 1861 brought on great division between the North and the South. The North had many great advantages with thriving industries, a large army, and an experienced government. The South also had great advantages including a significant amount of land and a very determined army. The North, which was also identified as the Union, was for the emancipation of slaves. The South, which was also known as the Confederacy, wanted to continue in their practice of slavery. The North and South both held many strengths and weaknesses in the political, economic, social, and military categories. In the end, it was the North that prevailed.
The American Civil War, also known as the War Between the States, or simply the Civil War in the United States, was a civil war fought from 1861 to 1865, after seven Southern slave states declared their secession and formed the Confederate States of America . The states that remained in the Union were known as the "Union" or the "North". The war had its origin in the fractious issue of slavery, especially the extension of slavery into the western territories. Foreign powers did not intervene. After four years of bloody combat that left over 600,000 soldiers dead and destroyed much of the South's infrastructure, the Confederacy collapsed, slavery was abolished, and the difficult Reconstruction process of restoring national unity and guaranteeing rights to the freed slaves began.
Young children for generations have learned that the purpose of the Civil War, or the war between the states, was to free the slaves. The noble goal of freeing the slaves and ending slavery became the focus of instruction and the way most Americans would explain the cause of the Civil War. When the North entered the American Civil War it had many reasons to do so, least of which was to end the practice of slavery in the South, its primary goal was the preservation of the Union . To fully understand the issues leading up to the American Civil War and the motivation for the North engaging in this conflict, it is necessary to learn about: The economy, ideology, and statistics of the United States in the
...ting power over Austria-Hungary, it assassinated its rival’s arch-duke as a means of disarming them and ridding them of a leader. The “Great War” came to be such, because countries which were significantly more powerful than Serbia and Austria-Hungary joined the war and chose sides to infiltrate and gain superiority over other countries. So the war was initiated by the power seeking of a small nation.