Battle of Grodno (1706)

Battle of Grodno
	Part of Great Northern War
	; Grodno and its fortifications on a 1706 plan
Date	15 January 1706 (O.S.); 16 January 1706 (Swedish calendar); 26 January — 10 April 1706 (N.S.)
Location	Grodno, present-day Belarus
Result	Swedish victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire	Tsardom of Russia
Commanders and leaders
Charles XII	Georg Benedict Ogilvy; Augustus II the Strong; Anikita Repnin; Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov
Strength
34,000:; 24,000 Swedish; 10,000 Polish	41,000:; 36,000 Russian; 5,000 Saxon
Casualties and losses
3,000:; of which only 100 killed in actual combat, the majority perished due to frostbite and exhaustion	15,000–17,000:; 8,000 during the blockade; 7,000–9,000 during the retreat, the majority due to starvation, sickness and exhaustion

The Battle of Grodno (1706) refers to the battle during the Great Northern War. Grodno was a city of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at this time.

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