The Great Northern War: Slaughter on the Steppes (TRIH ep 566, part 3)
1709 · Resource
This episode (the fifth and concluding instalment of the mini-series) recounts the climactic Battle of Poltava (1709) and its far-reaching consequences. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook describe Charles XII's bold but ill-fated assault on Peter the Great's fortified camp, the Swedish plan, the failure of coordination among Swedish commanders, and Peter's decisive counterattack.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1709
- Seven Years' War (1756)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- Reign of Peter the Great (1682)
- Salem witch trials (1692)
- Jacobite rising of 1745 (1745)
- Siege of Vienna (1683) (1683)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Great Plague of London (1665)
- Newton's Principia Mathematica (1687)
- Walpole's premiership (1721)