East Resurgent: A History of the World 1700-2000

Subsection 3: Estonia (Battle of Järve)




In 1721, Polliet and The Cossack Hetmanate had officially dropped out of the Germanic Wars as per the Treaty of Berlin, although manpower went to Sweden for the duration of the war. Charles XII had brought his forces back to the Peninsula to resist the intense focus of Britain, Prussia, and newly liberated Denmark.

One Regiment left in Swedish Estonia, the Estland Livregementets husarer(lit. Estonian Life Regiment Hussars) was left behind to defend the Baltic land against Russia. The ELRH became famous during the Battle of Järve (1721).

Russian forces, over the course of the war, had seized Ingria and Karelia, symbolically razing Narva to the ground. Russians were making major inroads on Finland proper and Estonia.

The Estland Livregementets husarer was stationed in Järve, and received word of Ingrian capitulation and Russian Army pillages. Word of the Rape, burning, and plundering reaches ear of ELRH commander Carl Gustav Armfeldt, and lit a fire in the man’s soul [1A]. An Ingrian, Armfeldt’s hatred of Russians became an undying passion, proclaiming if the Russian army wanted to march into Swedish Estonia, “They would need the power of the fiery sun itself to defeat my forces” (Sieges and battles of History III, p.176).


Carl Gustav Armfeldt: Badass


As Russian forces approached the city, Armfeldt positioned his men in a wall in the centre of the Town. Armfeldt sent several messages, to Tallinn, Riga, Stockholm, and Helsinki, begging for reinforcements to replace himself and his ‘lost’ regiment. Mikhail Golitsyn offered for the Swedes to capitulate and ‘Save you some men’. Armfeldt responded with “Well, if these are mere men, than you have brought mice to this, our last encounter” (Sieges and Battles of History III, p. 178).

Mikhail quite nearly strangled his messenger. He ordered his forces to charge. Armfeldt 'retreated' to the walls of the city, where he used urban combat to his advantage. While the Russians were only just adopting the Wheelock pistol, the Swedish had that and traditional swords to combat. As fighting dragged from dawn till dusk, often hand-to-hand, Golitsyn was stabbed several times in the chest. Before Russians could carry away his body, Armfeldt stood over it gazed down, and laughed. With that, a stray bullet struck the Swede below the spinal chord, in the tail bone[1B].
By the end of the battles, All the Swedes, and most of the Russian forces had perished in smoke and dust arisen from the fight. Though the Russian force of over 9000 [2] beat the 1400 Swedes stationed in Järve, they were leaderless, lost a good 2000 men, and were sure Swedish forces would be coming soon. Russian progress slowed, and was finally halted by the end of the war.

This Battle marked the end of Russian attacks on Sweden before the Crisis of Moscow. *Demitri Mikhaylovich would use this, his father’s death in his manifesto as the thing that pushed him to Radical groups [3].

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Well, I've been busy lately, so yeah. I hope this is acceptable for such a long wait.

1a.From this point on has been cluttered by popcultural osmosis ITTL. A Dramatic retelling of the Battle of Järve has become so popular, many accept it as the truth, ie George Washington's 'I cannot tell a lie'

1b. And so our story ends, although ITTL: Mikhail is stabbed through the throat, and struggles around until Armfeldt finds him. Armfeldt spits on Mikhail, and bids him 'Adieu', and walks away. A Russian soldier proceeded to assault Armfeldt. Glorious...:p

2....Teehee...Statistics taken from Armfeldt and Golitsyn's other meeting

3. Foreshadowing. I love it ^^.
 
I don't normally follow European timelines in the 18th Century, but the way you write your timeline makes it extremely easy and interesting to read. Great job so far, and I'm subscribed. :)
 
well done. At least with this crisis of Moscow we can infer that Russia is gonna pull out?

Actually, the crisis of Moscow takes place after the War: Diplomacy is in action and a peace treaty was being called for, which will be detailed in the Next Update.
The Crisis won't occur for another couple of years.
 
Peace at last, hurrah!

The Germanic Wars
Part II: The Peace

As Charles XII stared down the possibility of total defeat and humiliation, he began to call for a peace treaty. Russia was steamrolling through The Baltic States, and the Danish-British-Prussians were definitely on ships headed for the Shores of Sweden. While eager to prove his battle strongest of the region, Charles also realized his army was not the one Gustavus Adolphus lead into The Empire decades ago [1].

He sent a request to the Regency, which ruled his country while the King was off fighting, to ask for negotiations towards peace. The Riksdag welcomed Russian, Prussian, British, and Danish diplomats, as well as French advisors to Stockholm to negotiate a peace.
While Prussia, Denmark, and Great Britain had obvious and relatively negligible desires [2], Russia batted heads with Sweden over the Baltic Swedish colonies. The Former three countries mainly cared about Germany and money (and the Danes gawked at little Tobago), while Russia wanted to prune the Swedish vine a bit close to the stem. Peter made it clear that the only way he would negotiate peace is if Sweden seceded everything south of Karelia. The Riksdag barked back that they could secure St. Petersburg equally well with only Ingria and Karelia. French Diplomats intervened (off course on behalf of Sweden) bribing The Russian diplomats, whose identities remain unknown to this day, into settling for the Swedish plan (albeit with some snips from the Eastern edge of Finland). This, the infamous Rusky Diplomat Conspiracy,[3] was only revealed during the Crisis of Moscow.

In the End:
Sweden was to:
Hand possession of Tobago over to Denmark
Bremen-Verden to Hanover
Secede the Entirety of Swedish Pomerania over to Denmark and Brandenburg (to be partitioned in later negotiations)
And Pay reparations to Denmark, Russia, Great Britain, and Prussia.

France herself was dragged into negotiations too; as fighting was minimal, she only gave up Pondicherry and part of Acadia, otherwise slipping through status quo ante bellum.

Spain was forced into a rather humiliating treaty, with Austrians retaining Sicily and Naples, and Great Britain occupying the Balearics.
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1. The Leader of Sweden during The Thirty Years war, basically like the awsome king we all dream about.

2. Well, in comparison to Russia's vicious policy with Sweden.

3.Rather like the XYZ affair, except more successful; Russia was royally screwed up in the OTL Times of Trouble, and many corrupt individuals still hold signifigant power in russia (right up until Red October ^^)

So yeah: Comment. Flame, I really don't care as long as you give your honest opinion of my work. Until next update.
 
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Arrix85

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On a territorial basis Sweden got off relatively easy, but probably those war compensation could make a lot more damage than losing land. Big butterflies from a surviving Charles XII (but probably won't enter any war for a while).

And now we go to the crisis of Moscow...
 
On a territorial basis Sweden got off relatively easy, but probably those war compensation could make a lot more damage than losing land. Big butterflies from a surviving Charles XII (but probably won't enter any war for a while).

And now we go to the crisis of Moscow...

Yes, mwuahahaha!
 
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