Grodno campaign (1705/1706)
The Grodno campaign from July 1705 to October 1706 was an overarching military operation on the Polish and Lithuanian theater of war in the Great Northern War , planned by Johann Patkul and Otto Arnold von Paykull .
The goal was, with superior forces in a combined Saxon - Russian offensive, the Swedish army under Charles XII. to destroy in Poland-Lithuania . The Swedish forces managed to outmaneuver the attacks and instead enforce their own Polish electoral king in Poland and Lithuania. In several decisive battles near Grodno and Fraustadt in 1706, the Swedes won victories over the Allied forces. The defeat of the Allies in the campaign was sealed with the Peace of Altranstädt in 1706. August II renounced the Polish throne and broke with his Russian partner and made peace with Sweden .
The two campaign planners, Paykull and Patkul, were captured and executed. The campaign brought Sweden control of Poland-Lithuania until the Swedish defeat in the Russian campaign of 1709 . In the Treaty of Thorn 1709 August II received the Polish title back. The remaining Swedish troops in Poland then withdrew.
literature
- Sjöström, Oskar: Fraustadt 1706, ett fält färgat rött. Historiska Media, (2009). ISBN 978-91-85507-90-0