Siege of Narva (1704)
Part of theGreat Northern War
Taking of Narva byAlexander Kotzebue
Date 27 June – 9 August, 1704 Location Narva,Swedish Empire (present-dayEstonia) 59°22′45″N28°12′02″E / 59.37917°N 28.20056°E /59.37917; 28.20056 Result Russian victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Henning Rudolf Horn (POW)	Peter I Georg von Ogilvy
Strength
3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry	45,000[1]
Casualties and losses
3,200 dead or wounded and 1,900 captured	Up to 3,000 dead or wounded[2]

Thesiege of Narva (Russian:Осада Нарвы,Swedish:Belägringen av Narva), also known as thesecond battle of Narva, was the secondRussian siege ofSwedishNarva during theGreat Northern War from 27 June to 9 August 1704.^[3]

The siege came four years after thefirst battle of Narva, where the Russians were defeated by a much smaller Swedish force defending the city. Tsar Peter I marched to the area again with a reorganized army in an attempt to capture Narva and occupySwedish Ingria, previously a Swedish logistical center and territory ceded by Russia in 1617.^[4]: 697

MarshalBoris Sheremetev's force of 20,000 capturedTartu on 24 June and then Russian forces led byGeorg Benedikt von Ogilvy besieged Narva, with the garrison under the Commandant Major-General Henning Rudolf Horn af Ranzien and consisting of only 3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry.^[4]: 697

After a long siege followed by a three-fronted attack, the Russians captured Narva on 20 August 1704, massacring hundreds of its Swedish garrison and inhabitants before Peter I stopped them.^[4]: 69 General Horn, several officers and many Swedish soldiers were captured, after roughly 3,200 casualties in the siege and aftermath. The Russians lost up to 3,000 men in total, with some estimates being over 10,000.^[2]

In August, Peter I signed theTreaty of Narva in the town, aligning theSandomierz Confederation faction of thePolish–Lithuanian Commonwealth with Russia against Sweden in the war.

On 11 September, the surviving citizens of Narva swore allegiance to Peter I in the courtyard of the town hall, and the city was incorporated into the Russian Tsardom.^[5]

• Lovisa von Burghausen
• Brigitta Scherzenfeldt
• Anna Ivanovna Kramer

• Names of the Russian Generals, who command at the siege of Narva, 1704, and specification of the regiments employed (in Russian)

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• History of Narva
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• 18th century in Estonia

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