The Pruth River Campaign was a short war between Russia under Peter the Great and the Ottoman Empire, which came about after Charles XII of Sweden, who had been defeated at Poltava, took refuge in Ottoman territory and urged the sultan to declare war. Peter marched an army south into Moldavia, where the local prince, Dimitrie Cantemir, joined him, hoping for Russian help against Ottoman rule. The Russian forces, short of food, were surrounded by a much larger Ottoman army on the banks of the Pruth river. Peter negotiated a peace in which Russia returned Azov to the Ottomans and promised to abandon some forts, and Cantemir went into exile in Russia.
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- 29 December 1709Birth of Elizabeth I of Russia
- from 1710 to 1711Pruth River Campaign
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