Siege of Tönning
Phase 1: Swedish dominance ( 1700-1709 )
Humlebæk • Tonning I
Jungfernhof • I • Riga Pühhajoggi Narva • • • Dvina Rauge Erastfer • • • Hummelshof Peipussee • • Tartu Narva II • Wesenberg
Nöteborg Nyenschanz • • • Systerbäck Petersburg, Vyborg • I • Porvoo
Salads • James City • Gemauerthof • Jelgava • Grodno Nyasvizh • • • Kletsk Ljachowitschi •
Klissow • Pultusk • Thorn • Lviv • Warsaw • Posen • Punitz • Tillendorf • Rakowitz • woman • City Kalisch
Golowtschin Moljatitschi • • • Rajowka Lesnaja Koniecpol • • • Weprik Krasnokutsk • Poltava
Phase 2: Sweden on the defensive ( 1710-1721 )
Riga Vyborg II • II • • Pärnu Kexholm Reval • • • Pälkäne Storkyro • Hanko
Helsingborg • Køge Bay Frederikshald • I • Dynekilen Fjord Gothenburg • I • II • Marstrand Frederikshald Strömstad • • • Gothenburg Osel II • Södra Stäket • Grönham • Sundsvall
Lübow • I • Stade Stralsund Rügen • • • Altona • Gadebusch Tonning II • Szczecin • Fehmarn • Wismar Stralsund • II • Jasmund • Peenemünde • Stresow
The sieges of the fortress Tonning in 1700 was a military intervention in the Great Northern War. The fortress was Tonning 1700 in the possession of the House of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp. This was any family relationship with the Swedish royal family.
The parties
After his invasion of Gottorfer areas of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein Frederick VI besieged. King of Denmark and Norway, the city Tonning. Together with the Swedish allies defended the Gottorfer the fortress.
The Siege
Between Denmark - Norway, Saxony- Poland - Lithuania and Russia, it was agreed that three fronts against the Swedish king Charles XII. build were. The Danish- Norwegian King Frederick VI. marched with 14,000 men, in the units of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorps one. On March 22, 1700 the army of the King of Denmark was gathered around Tonning and the city was surrounded. She was hit in this time of several thousand artillery shells, the great devastation wreaked, but could be maintained.
The siege was canceled in August because the Danish king was forced by the Peace of Traventhal to withdraw from the alliance against Sweden.
The Swedish invasion of Gottorp on June 2, 1700 freed Schleswig -Holstein -Gottorp by the Danes, the Swedish king had a strong garrison in the Gottorfer shares back to prevent another invasion.
The Swedish defeat at Poltava in 1709 was the beginning of the second Danish participation in the Great Northern War.