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Battle of Torzhok
Part of Fight Against False Dmitry II
Torzhok on a Swedish map of the 17th century
Date
June 17, 1609
Location
Torzhok, now Tver Oblast
Result
Russo–Swedish victory
Belligerents
False Dmitry II
Russian Kingdom Sweden
Commanders and leaders
Alexander Zborovsky Jan Kernozhitsky Grigory Shakhovskoy
Kornila Cheglokov Semyon Golovin Evert Horn Klaus Boy
Strength
6,000
5,000
v
t
e
Polish–Muscovite War (1605–1618)
False Dmitry I :
Novhorod-Siverskyi
Dobrynichi
Kromy
Uprising of Bolotnikov
False Dmitry II:
Kozelsk
Zaraysk
Bolkhov
Medvezhiy Brod
Trinity Monastery
De la Gardie Campaign
Polish-Muscovite war:
Smolensk (1609–1611)
Tsaryovo-Zaymishche
Klushino
Moscow (1612)
Smolensk (1613–1617)
Lisowski Reid (1615)
Mozhaysk
Yelets
Moscow (1618)
The Battle of Torzhok was a battle on June 17, 1609 between the advanced units of the Russian-Swedish army led by Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky and Jacob De la Gardie and the army of Polish–Lithuanian invaders who fought for False Dmitry II, led by Alexander Zborovsky. It ended with the defeat of the interventionist troops and its retreat.
The BattleofTorzhok was a battle on June 17, 1609 between the advanced units of the Russian-Swedish army led by Prince Mikhail Skopin-Shuisky and Jacob...
Russian–Swedish combined army and the Polish–Lithuanian army. After the BattleofTorzhok on June 27, Aleksander Zborowski retreated to Tver, and large reinforcements...
control the junction of the rail line and the Torzhok road just north of Doroshika Station. General Vatutin, still chief of staff of Northwestern Front...
way to Novgorod, Mstislav delivered the key town ofTorzhok from a siege laid to it by Vsevolod III of Vladimir. He led two successful Novgorodian campaigns...
attacked a small force led by one of Mstislav's lieutenants (Yarun) near Torzhok, between Tver' and Novgorod, but Yaroslav's forces were beaten off. The...
Troubetskoy broke through the blockade and retreated to Torzhok, sustaining heavy losses. As a result of the victory at Bronnitsy, the Swedes regained the military...
month, as part of the new Kalinin Front, it took part in the successful counterstroke against XXXXI Panzer Corps along the road to Torzhok. It was then...
period. The battle for the Torzhok road would mark the first permanent liberation of Soviet territory during the war. On October 27 the forces of Army Group...
killed on the Sit River (March 4, 1238). Major cities such as Vladimir, Torzhok, and Kozelsk were captured. Afterward, the Mongols turned their attention...
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destroyed the town of Kozelsk, one of the subsidiary princely centers of the Principality of Chernigov. Taking the city ofTorzhok on 5 March 1238 after...
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operations at Torzhok northwest of Kalinin on 2 January. Rzhev was bombed on the 24 January and it carried out attacks in the area of Yukhnov on the...
had to bail Batu out of a mistake: during the invasion of Russia, Batu had struggled for weeks to conquer the fortress ofTorzhok, launching several failed...
offer of the Novgorodians to become their prince but, desiring revenge for their former treachery, captured Torzhok and blocked its supplies of grain...
beginning of the offensive Maslennikov was suddenly relieved of his command and assigned to command the newly formed 39th Army, concentrating in Torzhok area...
Yuriev-Polsky, Dmitrov, Volokolamsk, Tver, and Torzhok. The most difficult to take was the small town of Kozelsk, whose boy-prince Titus and inhabitants...
counterattacks that defeated the XXXXI Motorized Corps along the Torzhok road northwest of Kalinin. The division continued to fight in what became known...
of Kalinin. The German hold on the city was tenuous, and the panzers were expected to continue their advance toward the northwest along the Torzhok road...
connects Moscow and Riga runs through Rzhev. Another railway connecting Torzhok with Vyazma via Rzhev, crosses it from north to south. There is passenger...
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