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After the Russian conquest of eastern Sweden (present-day Finland) in 1808, the Swedish forces retreated to actual Sweden. In March the following year, Russian emperor Alexander I launched a threefold attack on Sweden, to force the country into the Continental System and to cede Finland to the Russian Empire; despite early advantages at Kalix ...
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 ...
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790) [67] Location: Finland, Baltic Sea, Sweden. Sweden Russian Empire Denmark-Norway(1788–1789) [79] Favourable outcome for Sweden; Status quo ante bellum: 3000 Swedish–Algerian war of 1791–1792 (1791–1792) Location: Mediterranean. Sweden: Regency of Algiers Ottoman Empire (De-jure) Sweden agrees to pay ...
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.
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 ...
- 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 ...
George I of Great Britain led Great Britain and Prussia into war against Sweden, and Denmark reentered the war. Russia maintained its conquered possessions in Ingria and the Baltic, was able to consolidate its hold over Ukraine and Poland, develop the new city of Saint Petersburg , and gain vital trade links in the Baltic trade.
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 ...