At the Battle of Poltava, the most famous battle of the Great Northern War,
În bătălia de la Poltava, cea mai vestită bătălia din Marele Război al Nordului,
Peter I of Russia defeated Charles XII of Sweden and effectively ended Sweden’s role as a major European power.
Petru I al Rusiei l-a invins pe Carol XII al Suediei şi astfel a încheiat în mod eficient, rolul Suediei de o mare putere europeană.
When the battle began, Peter had 45,000 men to Charles’s 14,000.
Când a început războiul, Petru a avut 45000 ostaşi, iar Charles 14000.
Charles was wounded during a siege before the actual battle and had to turn over command to Field Marshal Carl Gustav Rehnskiöld.
Carol a fost rănit în timpul unui asediu înainte de această luptă şi era nevoit să încredinţeze comanda armatei feldmareşalului Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld.
Question: What did the Russians do with their Swedish prisoners?
Several thousand prisoners were taken, many of whom were put to work building the new city of St. Petersburg.
Charles managed to escape with about 1,500 men to Bendery, Moldavia, then controlled by the Ottoman Empire, and spent five years in exile there before he was able to return to Sweden.
