This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles
This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Siege of Narva (1704) is part of WikiProject Estonia, a project to maintain and expand Estonia-related subjects on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.EstoniaWikipedia:WikiProject EstoniaTemplate:WikiProject EstoniaEstonia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Russia, a WikiProject dedicated to coverage of Russia on Wikipedia. To participate: Feel free to edit the article attached to this page, join up at the project page, or contribute to the project discussion.RussiaWikipedia:WikiProject RussiaTemplate:WikiProject RussiaRussia articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sweden, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sweden-related articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.SwedenWikipedia:WikiProject SwedenTemplate:WikiProject SwedenSweden articles
The English article here says for Sweden: 3,200 dead or wounded 1,900 captured; for Russia: 13,000 dead or seriously wounded.
The Russian article says for Sweden: 2,700 dead, 1,800 wounded; for Russia: 359 dead, 1,340 wounded.
The Swedish article says for Sweden: 2,700 dead, 1,800 captured; for Russia: 10,000 dead.
The German article says for Sweden: 2,700 dead, 1,800 captured; no casualties are given for Russia.
The Estonian article says for Sweden: 2,700 dead, 1,800 captured; for Russia: 359 dead, 1,340 wounded.
There seems to be a consensus for the Swedish casualties except when Dupuy is referenced. The Russian casualty figures are all over the place though. Determining bias is tricky as well, because both the Swedish and Russian articles use Russian sources yet disagree widely, yet the Estonian article agrees with the Russian one's low figures, but it cites a variety of sources... — Preceding unsigned comment added by D Boland (talk • contribs) 04:56, 11 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]
The account of Russian casualties is extremely exaggerated, with the number of “dead” and “seriously wounded” (a strange term for the infobox; I haven't seen it before) being higher than that in any other version of this article. Had the troops of Peter I and von Ogilvy lost 13,000 men during the battle, they would have lost a shockingly large number of regiments and bled on the field, but there is virtually no evidence that they encountered such a problem. Even worse, Lundblad’s "History of Charles XII" (1835), which is cited as the source, does not say anything about the “13,000 dead and seriously wounded” anywhere on p. 339. Russian sources claim that the casualties were up to 3,000 killed and wounded, not 13,000 (Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, p. 376). I’ve cleaned this up. Eriba-Marduk (talk) 23:12, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
.svg)
