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Livonian campaign against Rus' | |||||||
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Part of the Northern Crusades | |||||||
The Battle of the Ice. Miniature from the 16th century. | |||||||
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10,000–12,000 people | 15,000–17,000 people |
The Livonian campaign against Rus' was a military campaign that lasted from 1240 to 1242, and was carried out by the Teutonic Knights of the Livonian Order with the aim to conquer the lands of Pskov and Novgorod and convert them to Catholicism.