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Ukraine should re-enact the battle of Poltava, contstruct redoubts
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Date: March 2nd, 2024 6:28 PM Author: violet yapping bbw resort Peter decided to “plug” this gap by building a line of six redoubts. Once again Russian soldiers laid down their muskets and took up their spades, throwing up four-sided earthworks that rose a hundred feet high and were spaced about three hundred feet apart—within the maximum range of a musket shot. The redoubts were garrisoned by green-coated troops of the Belgorodsky Regiment, and parts of the Nekludov and Nechaev regiments.
Each redoubt was a small fortress manned by several hundred men and one or two cannon. They would blunt any Swedish attack, and also form a kind of advance warning line for the main Russian camp.
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Date: March 2nd, 2024 6:29 PM Author: violet yapping bbw resort Russian artillery began to fire at the advancing blue wall, muzzles spitting out a hail of iron balls in gouts of smoke and flame. Soldiers were disemboweled, lost limbs, or were decapitated in sprays of blood and flesh, but the Swedes pressed on without flinching. Swedish grenadiers from Roos’ division reached the first redoubt, spilling over the lip of the earthworks like a swarm of blue ants. Russian soldiers emptied muskets into their attackers then fought on with the bayonet, but they were no match for these Swedish veterans. The first redoubt fell, as did the second, but the third redoubt proved a much tougher proposition.
When the initial assault was repulsed, General Roos ordered a second, more determined attack on the third redoubt. This was entirely against the spirit, if not the letter, of his orders. Once repulsed, he should have moved on to the rendezvous point on the plain beyond. Instead, Roos seemed determined to take the redoubt, compounding the error by adding additional battalions from other sources to add weight to the assault. Thus, more than one-third of the Swedish infantry—about 2,600 men—were being wasted on an unimportant objective. If Roos had moved on, the redoubts would have been neutralized, players of the first act now reduced to spectators of a larger contest. |
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Date: March 2nd, 2024 6:31 PM Author: violet yapping bbw resort The broken Swedish army retreated toward the Dinner River; unlike Napoleon’s Grand Armee in December 1812, they were a disciplined fighting force capable of inflicting damage. But eventually most of the Swedes were surrounded and captured, though Charles XII managed to escape to Turkish territory with six hundred survivors.
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