In this war, the Drabant Corps used a smoke screen as they began an attack by crossing the Düna River. The Georgian prince Alexander of Imereti was captured in a battle during this war, which was the (10[1])subject of a painting by August von Kotzebue’s son that depicts soldiers retreating from a snow-covered (10[1])battlefield across a (10[1])river. One side in (10[1])this war (-5[1])steadily (-5[1])marched to within close (10[1])range before releasing a (-5[1])deadly (-5[1])volley using (10[1]-5[1])its (10[1])Ga-Pa tactics. (10[2])During this (-5[1])war, the treaty (-5[1])of (10[5])Altranstädt forced Augustus the (10[4]-5[1])Strong (10[1])to (10[2])renounce the (10[3])Polish (10[5]-5[1])throne. In the (10[1]-5[1])Moldavian (10[1])town of Bender, an (10[1])Ottoman operation during this war ended with the (10[1])capture of Charles (10[5]-5[1])XII (“the twelfth”). For 10 (10[3]-5[1])points, what (10[1])war’s decisive Battle of (10[2])Poltava (10[1])marked the (10[1]-5[1])ascendancy of Russia over (10[1])Sweden (10[1])in the Baltic (10[2])region? (10[11]0[6])■END■