Editing Battle of Poltava (section)

===Swedish retreat===
[[File:Carl XII i slaget vid Pultava (Carl Andreas Dahlström).png|thumb|left|250px|''Charles XII at the Battle of Poltava'' by Carl Andreas Dahlström]]
Realizing they were the last Swedes on the battlefield, Charles ordered a retreat to the woods, gathering what remaining forces he could for protection, including the remnants of Creutz's detachment.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|175, 180}} The Russians halted at the edge of the woods and their artillery fire stopped; only the Cossacks and [[Kalmyks]] roamed the plains south of the woods.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|189, 192}} Emerging from the woods at around noon, Charles—on horseback after his litter was destroyed, and protected by a square of a couple of thousand men—headed to Pushkaryovka and his baggage train 5&nbsp;km to the south, reaching it after 1:00&nbsp;p.m., by which time the battle was over.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|194}}

Charles gathered the remainder of his troops and baggage train and retreated to the south later that same day—at about 7:00&nbsp;p.m., abandoning the siege of Poltava.<ref name=Englund/>{{rp|197, 210}} Lewenhaupt led the surviving Swedes and some of the Cossack forces to the Dnieper River, but was doggedly pursued by the Russian regular cavalry and 3,000 Kalmyk auxiliaries and forced to [[surrender at Perevolochna|surrender three days later at Perevolochna]] on 11 July.<ref>Massie.</ref>