Battle of Jakobstadt

Battle of Jakobstadt
	Part of the Great Northern War
	; The Battle of Jakobstadt (engraving from the Johann Christoph Brotze's collection)
Date	25 July 1704 (O.S.); 26 July 1704 (Swedish calendar); 5 August 1704 (N.S.)
Location	Jēkabpils / Jakobstadt, Duchy of Courland and Semigallia, (present day Jēkabpils, about 125 km southeast of Riga, Latvia)
Result	Swedish victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth; Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Adam Ludwig Lewenhaupt; Krzysztof Zawisza	Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki; Grzegorz Antoni Ogiński
Strength
5,000:[1]; 3,000 Swedish; 2,000 Lithuanian	15,000:[1]; 10,000 Polish; 5,000 Russian
Casualties and losses
420:[2]; 238 killed ; 181 wounded	3,000:[3]; 2,300 killed; 517 captured

The Battle of Jakobstadt (Latvian: Jēkabpils), (Polish: Krzyżbork) was a battle fought in the Great Northern War. It took place on 25 July 1704 (O.S.) / 26 July 1704 (Swedish calendar) / 5 August 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 the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia. The Swedes were victorious.^[4]^[1]

Notes and references

1 2 3 Forces are usually set at 5,000-6,000 Swedes and Lithuanians and 15,000-17,000 Poles, Lithuanians and Russians. - Northern Wars, Oskar Sjöström
↑ 238 killed where of 57 Swedish. - Н. П. Волынский. Постепенное развитие русской регулярной конницы в эпоху Великого Петра. СПб. 1912.
↑ 517 captured, where of 287 Russian. Some also drowned or wounded. - The Military History Of Charles Xii. King Of Sweden, Gustavus Adlerfeld (2011). pp 328
↑ Kuvaja, Christer (2008). Karolinska krigare 1660–1721 (in Swedish). Helsingfors: Schildts Förlags AB. p. 164. ISBN 978-951-50-1823-6.

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