Great Sleigh Drive

Great Sleigh Drive
Part of the Scanian War

Frederick William pursues Swedish troops across the frozen Curonian Lagoon; fresco by Wilhelm Simmler, c. 1891
DateDecember 1678 – February 1679
Location
Duchy of Prussia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Result Brandenburgian victory
Belligerents
Brandenburg-Prussia  Swedish Empire
Commanders and leaders
Frederick William Henrik Horn
Strength
14,000–15,000
34 guns		 6,000–7,000
Casualties and losses
1,000–2,000 dead, captured or deserted

"The Great Sleigh Drive" (German: Die große Schlittenfahrt) from December 1678 to February 1679 was a daring and bold maneuver using sleighs by Frederick William, the Great Elector of Brandenburg-Prussia, to drive Swedish forces out of the Duchy of Prussia, a territory of his which had been invaded by the Swedes in November 1678.

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