Battle of Rauge

Part of the Great Northern War

Date	4 September 1701 (O.S.) 5 September 1701 (Swedish calendar) 15 September 1701 (N.S,)
Location	Rauge, Swedish Livonia (present-day Rouge, Estonia)
Result	Swedish victory

Belligerents

Swedish Empire

Tsardom of Russia

Commanders and leaders

Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach

Boris Sheremetev

Strength

2,000 men^[1]

7,000 men^[1]

Casualties and losses

100 killed and wounded^[1]

at least 2,000 killed, wounded and captured^[1]

Great Northern War

Campaigns

Denmark Russia and the Baltic provinces Poland-Lithuania/Saxony Ottoman Empire Sweden and Northern Germany Norway Finland

Battles

1st Riga 1st Tönning Humlebæk 1st Narva Petschora Düna Rauge Erastfer Darsūniškis Vilnius Kliszów Hummelshof Nöteborg Saladen Pultusk Systerbäck Wesenberg Thorn Jakobstadt Posen 2nd Narva Punitz Gemauerthof Warsaw Praga 1st Grodno Fraustadt Kletsk Kalisz 2nd Grodno Holowczyn Neva Malatitze Rajovka Lesnaya Desna Koniecpol Veprik Oposhnya Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye Sokolki Poltava Perevolochna 2nd Riga 2nd Vyborg Pruth Campaign Helsingborg Køge Bay Gadebusch 2nd Tönning Bender Finland Hogland Pälkäne Storkyro Gangut Stralsund Fehmarn Rügen Stresow Dynekilen Göteborg Strömstad Fredriksten Carolean Death March Ösel Stäket Grengam

Treaties

The Battle of Rauge was a battle that took place on 15 September 1701 near Rõuge, Livonia during the Great Northern War. The Swedes won the battle.

References

1 2 3 4 Northern wars, battle of Rauge, Otto Sjöström

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