Siege of Reval (1570–1571)

Siege of Reval
Part of the Livonian War

Depiction of Reval as it was in 1561 in the Baltic Cultural-Historical Atlas of 1886
Date21 August 1570 – 16 March 1571
Location
Reval (modern-day Tallinn), Duchy of Estonia
Result Swedish victory
Belligerents
Kingdom of Sweden
Commanders and leaders
Carl Henriksson Horn
Clas Åkesson Tott		 Duke Magnus of Holstein
Ivan Yakovlev-Zakhar’i
Vasilii Umnoi-Koly-chev
Yurii Tokmakov
Units involved
Reval Garrison Russian Army
Strength
650–785 men 1,000–25,000 men
Casualties and losses
Unknown 6,000–9,000 casualties
(Swedish claims)

The siege of Reval (Swedish: Belägringen av Reval, Russian: Осада Ревеля) was a failed Russian siege of Reval (modern-day Tallinn) led by Duke Magnus of Holstein during the Livonian War.

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