562. Peter the Great: The Rise of Russia (Part 1)

Let the soldiers know that now is the hour when in their hands rests the fate of the entire motherland. Either Russia will fall or she will be reborn. My soldiers You are not armed and drawn up to fight for Peter. You fight for the nation entrusted to Peter by birth, for your kin, for the people of all Russia, the land that has protected you, the land that now awaits the decision of fortune.

Remember as you fight that God and truth are on our side, and remember how many times the Lord of battles has shown us his favour. And know this of me, of Peter, that on my life I set no value As long as Russia may live in piety, in prosperity, and in glory. There we have, in ringing, masculine tones, the proclamation of Peter the Great Tsar and autocrat of all the Russians to his troops on the 26th of of June 1709, the eve of the famous and seismically influential Battle of Poltava, the showdown that decided the Great Northern War.

Dominic, quite possibly your favourite war, I think. Oh, I love the Great Northern War. It's a it it genuinely is a great war. It is a great war, isn't it? And it's very northern.

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