Battle of Varja

Battle of Varja
	Part of the Great Northern War
Date	October 27, 1700 (O.S.); October 28, 1700 (Swedish calendar); November 7, 1700 (N.S.)
Location	Varja, Duchy of Estonia, Swedish Empire; (present-day Estonia)59°24′54″N 27°07′39″E / 59.415°N 27.1275°E
Result	See aftermath
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Georg Reinhold von Patkul (POW) ; Hans Henrik von Tiesenhausen	Boris Sheremetev
Strength
800 men	5,000 men
Casualties and losses
280 killed, wounded and captured	1,500 killed, wounded and captured

The Battle of Varja took place on November 7, 1700, close to the villages of Varja and Aa, in the Duchy of Estonia of the Swedish Empire during the Estonian campaign of the first year in the Great Northern War.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Giovanni van Ghelen. Avvisi italiani, ordinarii e straordinarii, Volume 18. Vienna, 1701. p. 2.2
^ Margus Laidre. Segern vid Narva. Bokförlaget Natur & Kultur, Stockholm, 1996. pp. 141–142