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Later, however, a stronger Russian attack managed to breach the Swedish line and force Swedish naval forces into withdrawal, leaving the artillery battery surrounded by Russians. [ 2 ] The Swedish withdrawal was orderly and the Russians failed to take advantage of it before Hjelmstjerna's reserves arrived.
In the Russo-Swedish War 1808–1809 he was commander-in-chief in Finland, which still belonged to Sweden. Thanks to his very good standing with the Russian Imperial Family he later managed to alleviate the harsh terms of the peace negotiations when Finland was lost to Russia.
- Elisa Servenius enlists in the Swedish army dressed as a man because "She had decided to live and to die with her husband", the soldier Bernhard Servenus; she participates in the war between Sweden and Russia about Finland, and during one battle, she collected the ammunition of the Russians and gave them to her comrades. She is later ...
The Battle of Lemo was fought during the Finnish War between Sweden and Russia on 19–20 June 1808 (Julian calendar 7–8 June). On 19 June, about 2,500 Swedes landed at Lemo (Finnish:Lemu) in Kaarina (Swedish:S:t Karins) in Southwest Finland, aided by the Swedish Navy. There, the Swedes intended to liberate Åbo (Finnish:Turku) from the Russians.
Swedish landing at Narva [11] Kingdom of Sweden: Novgorod Republic Grand Duchy of Moscow: Russian victory: 1475–1476 Russo–Swedish War (1475–1476) Kingdom of Sweden: Grand Duchy of Moscow: Swedish victory: 1479–1482 Russo-Swedish War (1479–1482) Kingdom of Sweden: Grand Duchy of Moscow: Inconclusive: 1495–1497 Russo-Swedish War ...
Even if the messengers had arrived in time, it is questionable if the authorities could have scraped together enough troops to send reinforcements anyway, as almost all the Swedish forces not already engaged in Finland were needed elsewhere to face Denmark-Norway and France in the concurrent Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 and Franco-Swedish War ...
The Russo-Swedish War of 1788–90, known as Gustav III's Russian War in Sweden and as Catherine II's Swedish War in Russia, was fought between Sweden and Russia from June 1788 to August 1790. The conflict was initiated by King Gustav III of Sweden for domestic political reasons, as he believed that a short war would leave the opposition no ...
The Finnish War was seen as an embarrassment for Finland until Johan Ludvig Runeberg wrote the national romantic poem collection The Tales of Ensign Stål (Swedish: Fänrik Ståls sägner), which serves as a loose narrative of the conflict. In these poems, Runeberg depicts the ordinary Finnish soldiers as fighting heroically, with their defeats ...