BATTLE OF NARVA (1700), Lego history documentary (animation)

[Music] [Music] [Music] the Battle of NAA is a fantastic success for the Swedish army and it happened at the very beginning of the Great Northern war hello everyone you are watching LCM perck show channel and today we have a new history lesson for you at the beginning of the 18th century the Swedish Empire was the Mistress of all northern Europe in 1697 the emperor dies and 14-year-old Charles I 12th comes to the throne of the Swedish monarchy the teenager's rise to power was perceived by neighbors as a sign of weakness the Polish Lithuanian Commonwealth Denmark Norway state and the Russia united into an alliance and declared war on Charles I 12th however Sweden quickly withdrew Denmark Norway from the war and drove the Polish troops away from r well what about Russia Russia really needed access to the Sea Peter the first later known as Peter the Great planned to capture the key city of NAA to do this the Russian Zar gathered almost 40,000 soldiers it should be noted that while the Swedish army was highly professional and well supplied the Russian army in 1700 was formed mainly with militia Soldiers the troops were inexperienced poorly trained and poorly armed only three regiments in the Russian army were created according to the modern Western model in September the Russian army began shelling NAA en for 2 weeks the Russian cannons bombarded the city without any success it turned out that the Cannons were of small caliber the gunpowder was poor and the cannon balls could not damaged the city wall and after 2 weeks both the cannonballs and gunpowder ran out and the shelling stopped knowing that the Carolian Army could come to the aid of the Garrison in NAA the Russians decided to build fortifications for their positions a ditch was dug along the entire length of the peninsula horns were also supplied against Cavalry the chal def freeze and at the top of the ditch there was an embankment and small wooden fortifications it must be said that the Russian Zar tried to adopt the western style of the army and therefore he had many European officers in his army one of them a captain of a bombardment company fled to NAA and passed on all the information about the Russian army after this Peter sent all Swedish officers out of the camp the soldiers began to look at the foreigners with distrust this will play a role later soon information appeared that despite the winter the Swedish Kings sailed on ships and landed not far from the besieged City there was a rumor that the Swedish army reached 50,000 soldiers although in reality there were only about 10,000 of them as Charles's Army approached Zar Peter left the camp there various reasons for Peter's Retreat perhaps he thought that he could be more useful by organizing supplies for the Russian army and that The Siege would still be in place when he returned nevertheless Peter left the command to Duke daqua and left unsure if NAA was holding out Charles ordered the firing of a pre-arranged signal of four cannon shots if soon the sounds of four shots were heard from the besieged city NAA was still in Swedish hands nobody expected the swedes to act so quickly on the morning of November the 30th Russian patrols saw enemy columns Charles realized that there were many more Russians than he thought his 10,000 had to attack 40,000 and the big problem was the ditch with the fortifications but the Swedish Monarch also understood that it was no longer possible to retreat the swedes realized the critical mistake of the Russians the troops were located in a thin line along the entire length of the fortifications for several kilometers and if you strike concentratedly in one place then help from other parts of the camp will take a long time to arrive so the key to success is to quickly cross the ditch and enter hand-to-hand combat in the Russian army territory a fine is a rough bundle of Brushwood or other material used for strengthening structures or making making a path across uneven or wet terrain swedes decided to fill the ditch with those facin [Music] get the how do I CL [Music] here at the time of the battle a strong snow storm began the Swedish generals proposed to postpone the battle until the next day but the king saw that snow was flying in the face of the Russian army and the Russian soldiers could not see anything the snow helped the swedes and greatly hindered the Russians a get [Music] a having broken through the defenses in the center the swedes simply tore apart the Russian soldiers at that time the swedes had the best muskets they shot better and more accurately but most importantly experienced Swedish soldiers were simply unsurpassed Masters in hand-to-hand combat realizing that the battle was lost Russian soldiers began to shout that the foreign officers had betrayed them and they started killing their foreign officers seeing this duuke to surrendered to the sweds According to some reports he said Let The Devil Himself command these soldiers after that he went towards the sweds and surrendered to the first person he met giving them his saber turned with the hilt forward this him Panic began in the Russian army the soldiers tried to escape across the Oni bridge but it could not stand it and [Music] collapsed hold on Jack this door there is enough room for both of us however the battle was not over the swedes defeated the militia Army but three regiments of the elite Russian army built barricades from carts and took up a perimeter defense a the battle against the elite units continued until the night and brought zero success to the swedes as a result Charles agreed to peace negotiations and release the Russians with weapons and flags the total losses of the Russian army were colossal 8,000 killed the swedes Lost 800 people killed after this battle the elite Russian regiments received Red Socks the symbol of the fact that they fought knee in blood this this was the beginning of the birth of the great Russian army well it was a story about the incredible victory of a small Swedish army over the huge Russian army I hope you likeed this story please like this video And subscribe it will be appreciated that's it for today [Music] farewell [Music]