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Siege of Dorpat (1558)
| Siege of Dorpat | |||||||||
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| Part of the Livonian War | |||||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Tartu_1553.jpg) Dorpat on an engraving of the middle of the 16th century | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Baltic_coat_of_arms.svg){kind=small} Livonian Confederation |
 Tsardom of Russia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Herman Weyland  |
Petr Shuisky | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 2,000 Mercenaries[2] |
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| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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Light 700 cannons and 60,000 thalers[5] | Light | ||||||||
The siege of Dorpat (Estonian: Drepti Piiramine; Russian: Осада Дрепта) was a Russian siege of the Livonian city of Dorpat (in modern-day eastern Estonia) from July 1558, during the Livonian War.
- ^ Benson. Fearful Majesty: The Life and Reign of Ivan the Terrible. Putnam. p. 169
- ^ Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff, Ivan the Terrible, (Cooper Square Press, 2002), 168
- ^ Penskoi 2020, p. 166.
- ^ Robert Payne and Nikita Romanoff, Ivan the Terrible, (Cooper Square Press, 2002), 166
- ^ Penskoi 2020, p. 176.
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