Kammala wannan jumla: Lokacin da Babban Yaƙin Arewa ya ɓarke bayan an naɗa ɗan sarki a matsayin Charles XII, Schlippenbach ya tara rundunar mayaƙa a Livonia, wanda ya zama colonel. Lokacin da Charles ya karya sansanin hunturu a Dorpat (yanzu Tartu) kuma ya nufi Riga a farkon 1701, an bar Schlippenbach a baya don kare iyakar Livonian. Ya ci yaƙin Rauge a ranar 5 ga Satumba 1701 kuma daga baya aka ɗaukaka shi zuwa babban janar, amma sai manyan sojojin Rasha suka ci shi a ƙarƙashin Boris Sheremetev a
Erastfer a ranar 30 ga Disamba na wannan shekarar kuma a Sagnitz da Hummelshof a ranar 19 ga Yuli 1702. A shekara ta 1703 dole ne ya canza babban ɓangare na sojojinsa don ƙarfafa Lewenhaupt a Kurland. Wannan ya bar shi ba shi da ikon hana Narva da Dorpat daga fadawa hannun Rasha a 1704, a wannan shekarar aka nada shi Gwamna Janar a Reval (Tallinn na yanzu).