Cossack ruler Ivan Mazepa [mah-ZEH-pah] turned traitor in this conflict, and General Lewenhaupt [LEV-en-hawpt] and Field Marshal RehnskiÃ¶ld led a disastrous attack at Poltava.
At one battle in this war, a stretcher-bound commander failed to keep his troops from being split by the enemy's T-shaped arrangement of forts. Despite Axel Roos's efforts, that leader was captured four years later by Ottoman forces at Bender. Following his defeat at KliszÃ³w [KLIH-shoof] during this war, Augustus II was deposed as king of Poland. Cossack ruler Ivan Mazepa [mah-ZEH-pah] turned traitor in this conflict, and General Lewenhaupt [LEV-en-hawpt] and Field Marshal RehnskiÃ¶ld led a disastrous attack at Poltava. Name this war in which Peter the Great's Russian forces defeated Swedish forces under Charles the Twelfth.
At one battle in this war, a stretcher-bound commander failed to keep his troops from being split by the enemy's T-shaped arrangement of forts.
Great Northern War [or Second Northern War or Third Northern War or Twenty Years' War; or Stora nordiska kriget; or Velikaya Severnaya voyna or Dvadtsatiletnyaya voyna; or trzeci wojna pÃ³łnocna or wielka wojna pÃ³łnocna]