What if the Swedish Army wins the Battle of Poltava? How does that affect the Northern War? How far into Russia would Sweden go, if at all?
It might make Denmark and Saxony postpone their reentering the war.What if the Swedish Army wins the Battle of Poltava? How does that affect the Northern War?
No one knows what Charles XII intended. His army would be ordered to go where there was food to be had, and if scorched earth policies was implemented in all reachable Russian territories, the Swedes would have to return to Poland-Lithuania, or go to Crimea or Turkey.How far into Russia would Sweden go, if at all?
What if the Swedish Army wins the Battle of Poltava? How does that affect the Northern War? How far into Russia would Sweden go, if at all?
At Perevolotchna, the surrendering Swedes still had enough gunpowder to fight two more battles. Or more precisely, the artillery had twice as much gunpowder as the Russian artillery had used at the battle of Poltava, while the infantry only had three shots per musketeer. (Not that there was much infantry left, though.)The army lacked gun powder