Editing Battle of Poltava (section)

===Russian advance===
[[File:Lomonosov Poltava 1762 1764.jpg|thumb|left|250px|''The Battle of Poltava'', mosaic by [[Mikhail Lomonosov]]]]
General Roos and six battalions (one-third of the Swedish infantry) became isolated while attempting to take the third Russian redoubt.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|110}} After suffering severe casualties from several assault attempts, Roos led the remaining 1,500 of his original 2,600 men into the Yakovetski woods to the east at 6:00&nbsp;a.m.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|114}} The Russians reoccupied the first two redoubts<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|115}} and launched a two-pronged attack by ten regiments around 7:00&nbsp;a.m., forcing Roos to retreat towards Poltava and take refuge in an abandoned fort by 9:00&nbsp;a.m. when he could not make it to the Swedish siege works.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|118–19, 127, 132}} Roos was forced to surrender<ref name=Frost/>{{rp|290}} at 9:30&nbsp;a.m.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|134}} 

The Swedes continued to wait for Roos' troops to return, unaware of their surrender.<ref name=Frost/>{{rp|292}} Peter led the 42 battalions of Russian infantry—22,000 soldiers—into an advance out of the fortified camp, supported by 55 three-pounder cannons and 32 guns on the ramparts of the fort.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|129, 138–39}} Ten regiments of [[dragoons]] formed under Lieutenant General Adolf Fredrik Bauer on the Russian right and six regiments under Menshikov on the left.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|139}} Just west of the camp the Russians were faced by 4,000 Swedish infantry,<ref name=Frost/>{{rp|292}} formed into ten battalions with four three-pounders, and the cavalry under Major General [[Carl Gustaf Creutz]] in the rear.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|143}} The Russians slowly moved forward to engage.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|143}}  According to Charles and reports from other Swedish officers, the weather at that time was already very hot and humid, with the sun obscured by smoke from the Russian cannons in the fort.