Some articles on river neva, neva:
Great Northern War - 1702–1710: Russia and The Baltic Provinces
... Peter captured the Swedish fortress of Nyen guarding river Neva ... already in summer 1703 Petropavlovskaya Krepost was founded at the mount of river Neva where city of Saint Petersburg was to be built ... Swedes tried to hinder Russian efforts at Neva by raiding it on 13 July 1704 with ships and landing forces but Swedish effort were blunted by Russian fortifications ...
... Peter captured the Swedish fortress of Nyen guarding river Neva ... already in summer 1703 Petropavlovskaya Krepost was founded at the mount of river Neva where city of Saint Petersburg was to be built ... Swedes tried to hinder Russian efforts at Neva by raiding it on 13 July 1704 with ships and landing forces but Swedish effort were blunted by Russian fortifications ...
Famous quotes containing the word river:
“It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.... As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see “the River Tiber foaming with much blood.””
—J. Enoch Powell (b. 1912)
Related Phrases
Related Words