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| Battle of Rajovka | |||||||
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| Part of the Swedish invasion of Russia | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Swedish Empire |
 Tsardom of Russia | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Charles XII of Sweden | Christian Felix Bauer | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 2,400 cavalry[2] |
8,000–10,000 dragoons 1,000 Cossacks and Kalmyks[3] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
| 100 killed[4] | 375 killed[5] | ||||||
The Battle of Rajovka took place on 20 September 1708 near Rayevka, Smolensk during the Swedish invasion of Russia in the Great Northern War. The Swedish army of about 2,400 men under the command of Charles XII defeated the Russian army of 10,000 men under Christian Felix Bauer after a fierce cavalry skirmish where the king himself was in great danger.
- ^ Bennedich, Carl. Karolinska förbundets årsbok 1911: Karl XII:s krigföring 1707–1709 och krigsskådeplatsens natur och kultur, I. (1912) Lund, Karolinska förbundet. p 102. OCLC 936696934
- ^ Bengt Liljegren, Karl XII: En biografi. (2000) Lund, Historiska media. pp 159. ISBN 91-85377-14-7
- ^ Dorrell, Nicholas. The Dawn of the Tsarist Empire: Poltava & the Russian Campaigns of 1708—1709, Partizan Press (2009). pp 98, 101
- ^ Gordon A. The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia: To which is Prefixed a Short General History of the Country from the Rise of that Monarchy: and an Account of the Author's Life, Volume 1. Aberdeen. 1755. p. 272
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