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Carl Pontus Gahn (1 March 1759 – 9 May 1825) was a Swedish military officer who participated in the Russo-Swedish War in Finland in 1788–1789, the Finnish War campaign in Norway in 1808 and the unsuccessful invasion of Norway at Eidskog in 1814. [1]
A stone war memorial located upon a hill overlooking the Battle of Oravais battlefield. The battle of Oravais had shown that the Swedish army was not tactically inferior to the Russian counterpart. But the Swedish strategic situation seemed hopeless; allied only with Great Britain, it faced the overnight of Napoleon's Europe and its Russian ...
Finnish War, February 1808 at the outbreak of the war. On February 21, 1808, 24,000 Russian troops under Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoevden crossed the border in Ahvenkoski and took the town of Lovisa (Finnish: Loviisa). [8] Since Klingspor had not arrived, Lieutenant General Karl Nathanael af Klercker acted as Swedish commander in Finland.
Bodisko proclaimed himself governor of Gotland, but Swedish officials – except for af Klint – were allowed to remain. The two Swedish ships of the line Tapperheten [ sv ] and Manligheten were sent from Karlskrona and blockaded the harbor of Slite beginning 12 May, hampering the possibility of Russian reinforcements.
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 ...
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The Battle of Ratan was the last battle fought on Swedish soil during the Russian-Swedish War of 1808 - 1809. It took place a day apart from the Battle of Sävar, on 20 August 1809. Having conquered Finland from Sweden, the Russians had a small force in the northern areas of Sweden, which the Swedes sought to eliminate through a combined ...