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Great Sleigh Drive, the Glossary

"The Great Sleigh Drive" (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.^[1]

Baltic Sea

The Baltic Sea is an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that is enclosed by Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Russia, Sweden, and the North and Central European Plain.

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Battalion

A battalion is a military unit, typically consisting of up to one thousand soldiers commanded by a lieutenant colonel and subdivided into a number of companies, each typically commanded by a major or a captain.

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Battle of Fehrbellin

The Battle of Fehrbellin was fought on June 18, 1675 (Julian calendar date, June 28th, Gregorian), between Swedish and Brandenburg-Prussian troops. Great Sleigh Drive and Battle of Fehrbellin are Battles involving Brandenburg-Prussia, Battles involving Sweden and Scanian War.

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Brandenburg–Prussia

Brandenburg-Prussia (Brandenburg-Preußen) is the historiographic denomination for the early modern realm of the Brandenburgian Hohenzollerns between 1618 and 1701.

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Commandeering

Commandeering is an act of appropriation by the military or police whereby they take possession of the property of a member of the public.

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Cuirassier

Cuirassiers were cavalry equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols.

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Curonian Spit

The Curonian (Courish) Spit (Kuršių nerija; Ку́ршская коса́) is a long, thin, curved sand-dune spit that separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea.

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Dragoon

Dragoons were originally a class of mounted infantry, who used horses for mobility, but dismounted to fight on foot.

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Duchy of Prussia

The Duchy of Prussia (Herzogtum Preußen, Księstwo Pruskie, Prūsijos kunigaikštystė) or Ducal Prussia (Herzogliches Preußen; Prusy Książęce) was a duchy in the region of Prussia established as a result of secularization of the Monastic Prussia, the territory that remained under the control of the State of the Teutonic Order until the Protestant Reformation in 1525.

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Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg

Frederick William (Friedrich Wilhelm; 16 February 1620 – 29 April 1688) was Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia, thus ruler of Brandenburg-Prussia, from 1640 until his death in 1688.

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Heinz Guderian

Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (17 June 1888 – 14 May 1954) was a German general during World War II who, after the war, became a successful memoirist.

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Henrik Horn

Henrik Horn (Henrik Horn af Marienborg) (22 May 1618 – 22 February 1693) was a Swedish nobleman (friherre), admiral and member of the Privy Council of Sweden.

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Hypothermia

Hypothermia is defined as a body core temperature below in humans.

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Infantry

Infantry is a specialization of military personnel who engage in warfare combat.

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Klaipėda

Klaipėda (Memel) is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast.

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Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence is a city in and the county seat of Douglas County, Kansas, United States, and the sixth-largest city in the state.

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Lund

Lund ((US) and) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen, Denmark.

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Major (rank)

Major is a senior military officer rank used in many countries.

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Maneuver warfare

Maneuver warfare, or manoeuvre warfare, is a military strategy which emphasizes movement, initiative and surprise to achieve a position of advantage.

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Margraviate of Brandenburg

The Margraviate of Brandenburg (Markgrafschaft Brandenburg) was a major principality of the Holy Roman Empire from 1157 to 1806 that played a pivotal role in the history of Germany and Central Europe.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional or part-time soldiers; citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel; or, historically, to members of a warrior-nobility class (e.g.

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Motorized infantry

Motorized infantry is infantry that is transported by trucks or other motor vehicles.

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Natangians

Natangians or Notangians (italics; Natangowie; Notangai; Natanger) was a Prussian clan, which lived in the region of Natangia, an area that is now mostly part of the Russian exclave Kaliningrad Oblast, whereas the southern portion lies in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

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Pasłęk

Pasłęk (pronounced; formerly known in Polish as Holąd Pruski, Preußisch Holland, Old Prussian: Pāistlauks) is a historic town in northern Poland, within Elbląg County in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.

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Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

Poland–Lithuania, formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and also referred to as the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth or the First Polish Republic, was a bi-confederal state, sometimes called a federation, of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in real union, who was both King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.

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Regiment

A regiment is a military unit.

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Sambia Peninsula

Sambia (translit) or Samland (translit) or Kaliningrad Peninsula (official name, Калининградский полуостров, Kaliningradsky poluostrov) is a peninsula in the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia, on the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea.

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Scanian War

The Scanian War (Skånske Krig;; Skånska kriget; Schonischer Krieg) was a part of the Northern Wars involving the union of Denmark–Norway, Brandenburg and Sweden. Great Sleigh Drive and Scanian War are Conflicts in 1678 and Conflicts in 1679.

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Siege of Stralsund (1678)

The siege of Stralsund was an armed engagement between the Electorate of Brandenburg and the Swedish Empire from 20 September to 15 October 1678, during the Scanian War. Great Sleigh Drive and siege of Stralsund (1678) are Battles involving Brandenburg-Prussia, Conflicts in 1678 and Scanian War.

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Sled

A sled, skid, sledge, or sleigh is a land vehicle that slides across a surface, usually of ice or snow. Great Sleigh Drive and sled are Sledding.

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Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake, below the level needed to maintain an organism's life.

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Stralsund

Stralsund (Swedish: Strålsund), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: Hansestadt Stralsund), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald, and the second-largest city in the Pomeranian part of the state.

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Swedish Empire

The Swedish Empire (stormaktstiden, "the Era as a Great Power") was the period in Swedish history spanning much of the 17th and early 18th centuries during which Sweden became a European great power that exercised territorial control over much of the Baltic region.

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