| Battle of Kalisz | |||||||||
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| Part of the Great Northern War | |||||||||
 Battle of Kalisz | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 Swedish Empire  Pro-Leszczyński forces |
 Saxony  Tsardom of Russia Sandomierz Confederation | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Arvid A. Mardefelt  Józef Potocki Kazimierz Jan Sapieha |
Augustus the Strong  Alexander Menshikov Adam Mikołaj Sieniawski | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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13,000–16,360 10 artillery pieces |
32,000–36,000 17 artillery pieces | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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4,900[6]–5,740[7] See casualities |
670[8]–3,000[6] See casualities | ||||||||
  Location within Greater Poland Voivodeship  Battle of Kalisz (Poland) | |||||||||
The Battle of Kalisz[b] took place on 29 October 1706 in Kalisz, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Great Northern War. The battle was fought between an anti-Swedish army of Russians, Saxons and Poles led by Augustus the Strong and Russian general Alexander Danilovich Menshikov, and a Swedish–Polish–Lithuanian army headed by colonel Arvid Axel Mardefelt, loyal to Stanisław Leszczyński. The battle, which occurred as peace had been concluded between Sweden and Saxony, marked Sweden's only major defeat in Poland during the war and temporarily secured a major part of Greater Poland for the coalition. However, they failed to exploit their success as Augustus returned to Saxony soon thereafter to abide by the peace treaty, while Charles XII sent a new corps of 8,000 Swedes into Greater Poland.
- ^ a b c Englund 2004, p. 25.
- ^ Wimmer 1961, p. 10.
- ^ Artamonov 2008, p. 28.
- ^ a b c d Wimmer 1961, p. 11.
- ^ a b Kling & Chmiel 2015, p. 220.
- ^ a b Gordon 1755, p. 228.
- ^ Shkvarov 2012, p. 245.
- ^ Artamonov 2008, p. 36.
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