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Siege of Veprik

1708 CE · Ukraine, Europe · War

Siege of Veprik
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The siege of Veprik took place on 3–18 January 1709 during the Swedish invasion of Russia in the Great Northern War near the Ukrainian city of Veprik. The town was defended by a garrison of about 1,500 men, from who 1,100 were soldiers of Pereyaslavl infantry regiment and the rest were Zaporozhian Cossacks.

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