Great Stand on the Ugra River

Target entity: Great Stand on the Ugra River
Context triple: [Ivan III of Russia, notableEvent, Great Stand on the Ugra River]

• A. Battle of Lesnaya
  The Battle of Lesnaya was a 1708 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Peter the Great’s Russian forces dealt a crucial blow to a Swedish supply corps, helping to undermine Charles XII’s campaign before Poltava.
• B. Battle of the Don Bend
  The Battle of the Don Bend was a World War II Eastern Front engagement in late 1942, where Axis forces, including the Romanian 4th Army, suffered devastating Soviet attacks that helped pave the way for the encirclement at Stalingrad.
• C. Battle of the Kalka River
  The Battle of the Kalka River was a 1223 clash in which Mongol forces decisively defeated a coalition of Kievan Rus' princes and their Cuman allies, marking an early and ominous demonstration of Mongol military power in Eastern Europe.
• D. Battle of the Moskva
  The Battle of the Moskva, better known as the Battle of Borodino, was a major 1812 clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Russian forces near Moscow, often regarded as one of the bloodiest single-day battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
• E. Battle of Maloyaroslavets
  The Battle of Maloyaroslavets was a key engagement during Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign that forced the French army to retreat along the devastated route of its advance, contributing significantly to its eventual destruction.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Great Stand on the Ugra River
Target entity description: The Great Stand on the Ugra River was a 1480 standoff between Muscovite and Tatar forces that effectively ended Mongol-Tatar dominance over Russia and marked a key step toward Russian independence and statehood.

• A. Battle of Lesnaya
  The Battle of Lesnaya was a 1708 engagement in the Great Northern War in which Peter the Great’s Russian forces dealt a crucial blow to a Swedish supply corps, helping to undermine Charles XII’s campaign before Poltava.
• B. Battle of the Don Bend
  The Battle of the Don Bend was a World War II Eastern Front engagement in late 1942, where Axis forces, including the Romanian 4th Army, suffered devastating Soviet attacks that helped pave the way for the encirclement at Stalingrad.
• C. Battle of the Kalka River
  The Battle of the Kalka River was a 1223 clash in which Mongol forces decisively defeated a coalition of Kievan Rus' princes and their Cuman allies, marking an early and ominous demonstration of Mongol military power in Eastern Europe.
• D. Battle of the Moskva
  The Battle of the Moskva, better known as the Battle of Borodino, was a major 1812 clash between Napoleon’s Grande Armée and Russian forces near Moscow, often regarded as one of the bloodiest single-day battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
• E. Battle of Maloyaroslavets
  The Battle of Maloyaroslavets was a key engagement during Napoleon’s 1812 Russian campaign that forced the French army to retreat along the devastated route of its advance, contributing significantly to its eventual destruction.
• F. None of above. chosen