NARVA 1700

Despite Sweden’s ultimate defeat in the Great Northern War, its decisive victory at Narva was a key early battle that ensured the conflict would be prolonged and bloody. The war had begun on 22 February 1700 when a coalition of Russia, Denmark-Norway and Saxony-Poland-Lithuania launched an unprovoked attack against Sweden. Their aim was to weaken the Swedish Empire, particularly in the region of what is now the