The Great Northern War: Revenge of the Cossacks (TRIH ep 565, part 2)
1703 · Resource
This episode of The Rest Is History, hosted by Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, continues their multi-episode account of the Great Northern War. It covers Charles XII's 1707–1708 advance into the Polish–Lithuanian frontier and into Russia, the Russian scorched-earth response under Peter the Great, and key confrontations such as Kholovchin and Lesnaya.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1703
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)
- Peter the Great (1672)