Battle of Hummelshof | |||||||
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Part of the Great Northern War | |||||||
Anonymous copperplate of the battle (1733) | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Swedish Empire | Tsardom of Russia | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach | Boris Sheremetev | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
6,000[1]-8,000[2] 17 artillery pieces[3] |
20,000[4]–23,969 men[3] 24 artillery pieces[3] | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
2,000 killed and over 1,000 wounded and captured[4] or 5,500 killed and wounded, all cannons[5] | 1,000[6]–4,000 killed and wounded[4] |
Battle of Hummelshof took place on July 19, 1702 (O.S.) near the small town Hummelshof in Swedish Livonia (present-day Estonia). It was the second significant Russian victory in the Great Northern War in which a Russian army under Boris Sheremetev attacked a much smaller force under Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach and defeated it after experiencing similar casualties to the Swedes. This was a final blow to the Swedish force defending Livonia and the defeat left it fully open to Russian attacks.