Editing Battle of Narva (1700) (section)

== Second siege ==
{{main|Siege of Narva (1704)}}
Four years after the [[Narva]] battle, Peter I marched again in a new attempt to capture Narva. Marshal [[Boris Sheremetev]]'s force of 20,000 captured [[Tartu]] on 24 June.<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}} Sheremetev then besieged Narva, where the garrison was under Commandant Major-General Henning Rudolf Horn af Ranzien<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}} and consisted of 3,800 infantry and 1,300 cavalry. The Russians captured Narva on 20 August 1704 and massacred some of its Swedish inhabitants before Peter I stopped them.<ref name=Tucker/>{{rp|697}} Horn, several officers, and a large number of Swedish soldiers were captured, with about 3,200 casualties while the Russians lost up to 3,000 men during the siege and the assault.<ref name="Лексикон">Военный энциклопедический лексикон. Часть 9-я. СПб, 1845, с. 376</ref>