Battle of Poltava
July 8, 1709
On a Ukrainian plain, Peter the Great's reformed Russian army shattered Charles XII of Sweden in a single morning. The Swedish king fled to the Ottomans; Russia stepped onto the European stage as a great power for the first time in its history. The balance of the North had turned.
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