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	Gustav III's Russian War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gustav III's Russian War, also known as the Russo-Swedish War, was fought between Sweden and Russia from June 1788 to August 1790.
		On July 9 and 10, the Swedish Navy won the Second Battle of Svensksund, in which the Russians lost 9 500 out of 14 000 men and had one third of their fleet captured, in what was the greatest naval victory ever gained by Sweden.
		On May 22, 1790, the Swedish Navy of around four hundred ships found itself trapped in the Viborg Bay, as the exit was blocked by one hundred and fifty Russian vessels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russo-Swedish_War (530 words)

	The Russo-Swedish War of 1808-09
		The Swedish ambassador in St. Petersburg was alerted by the situation and constantly sent letters back to Stockholm with warnings of a war approaching.
		The Swedish military in Finland relied upon fort Sveaborg (outside Helsinki), considered to be one of the strongest fortifications in Europe at the time.
		Meanwhile the Swedish stronghold of Sveaborg surrendered to the Russians in the south and all resistance in those parts of the country ceased.
	www.napoleon-series.org /military/battles/c_finland.html (1124 words)

	Museovirasto
		Gustav III’s Russian War (The Russo-Swedish War of 1788-1790)
		The war went on and in August 1789 the Swedish Galley Fleet was involved in a naval battle at Svensksund.
		The Swedish and Russian navy met by the island of Hogland in the Gulf of Finland.
	www.nba.fi /en/gustavadolf_war (861 words)

	The Vasa Capsizes
		With 64 guns this massive warship was designed to engender pride in the soul of the Swedish people and to strike fear in the hearts of her enemies.
		Feeling the economic pressures of his war efforts, on November 3 the king writes to the Council of the State ordering the Council and the Nobility to contribute money for the construction of two new ships to be built in Hybertson’s yard.
		He was intent on eliminating the threat to the Swedish sect of Lutheran Protestantism which was posed by his cousin — and deadly personal enemy — King Sigismund III, the Catholic who had been deposed from the Swedish throne in 1599 but was still making claims to be reinstated as king.
	www.albany.edu /faculty/pm157/teaching/cases/vasahome.html (4951 words)

	Bx8091a
		During most of the 1808-09 Russo Swedish war the Finnish sharpshooters appear to have worn the 1802-regulation uniform, which is hear shown with the distinctive deep green shako particular to the Finnish jägare.
		Swedish losses for both these battles were less than 30 killed and wounded, while the Prussians lost as many as 7.000 in the battle of Dennewitz alone.
		Greifswald was retaken and a small Swedish force raided as far as Rostock in the west, capturing the French commandant, and in the east as far as Ückermünde and Wollin.
	www.hat.com /Curr2/Bx8091a.html (8857 words)

	Sequel to Poltava
		Appointed Swedish Minister to the Saxonian court, he was commissioned general in 1740 and took part in the next Russo-Swedish war at the age of 81.
		Maybe some Swedish soldier believed that 18 years of war was enough.
		Swedish agents were active in Constantinople spreading propaganda pamphlets depicting Charles as a strong leader and hero.
	www.euronet.nl /users/sota/haggman.html (2956 words)

	Union with Sweden (from Norway) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The second son of King Adolf Frederick of Sweden, he was created duke of Södermanland by his elder brother, King Gustav III, and later served as admiral of the fleet during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–90).
		Swedish history begins with the activities of the Vikings in the 9th century.
		Jean Bernadotte (later known as Charles XIV John; called Karl Johan in Sweden and Norway), the Swedish crown prince, accepted the Norwegian constitution and thus could no longer argue on the basis of the Treaty of Kiel.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-39313 (927 words)

	Russo-Swedish War 1808-1809
		The Russo-Swedish War of 1808-1809, by Göran Frilund
		The Swedish strategy was to retreat, slowing down the Russian advance by skirmishes, and to rely on a number of fortresses, most importantly Sveaborg, in which the Swedes could spend the coming winter while the Russians had to camp out in the open.
		Swedish General ARMFELT, with 8,000 men under his command, invaded Norway (April 13th 1808); the troops were recalled May 19th, without having accomplished a major victory or conquest.
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/napwars/russwed180809.html (845 words)

	Russo-Swedish War, 1788-1790
		Swedish troops in Russian uniforms attacked a Swedish border post in Finland, causing an outrage in Stockholm which provided the excuse for the declaration of war on Russia.
		The Swedish-Russian War of 1788-1790 war thus was insignificant, neither gaining territory, defeating an invasion nor achieving lasting stabilization of the country.
		The dissatisfaction with Swedish policy in Finland, among Finland's ethnically Swedish noblemen, was of such a kind that in the ANJALA CONSPIRACY they invited Czarina Catherine to assume the throne of Grand Duchess of Finland (expecting her to recognize the traditional privileges of the Finnish nobility).
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/18cen/russwed178890.html (666 words)

	List of wars - Simple English Wikipedia
		1532 - 1546 Ottoman-Habsburg War in the Mediterranean
		1918 Finnish Civil War, fought between "the reds" (rebellious Socialists) and "the whites" (anti-Socialists) in the aftermath of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
		1478 - War between the Principality of Moscow and the Republic of Novgorod.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_wars (1584 words)

	Strategy & Tactics
		Sami Männistö's "The Russo-Swedish War of 1808-1809" recounts one of the more obscure episodes of the Napoleonic Wars, when Russia, temporarily allied with France, went to war to compel Swedish adherence to the Continental System and, incidentally, add Finland to the Russian Empire.
		The armies on the field were about equal, but the Swedish war effort was "plagued by a lack of overall strategy and half-hearted resolution", aggravated by obsolete military thinking and failure "to exploit the vulnerability of Russian communications and.
		The quip that the two sides fought with World War III weapons and World War I tactics seems to be the view of designer Philip Sharp.
	www.members.tripod.com /stromata/id433.htm (1076 words)

	The Russo - Swedish War of 1808 - 09.
		The Swedish units suffered a similar fate with all the non-‘cavalry’ Vargering units being disbanded in November 1808, although the ‘cavalry’ Vargering served as infantry units until the end of the war.
		Some units of the Swedish army were recruited in Finland, these and other units helped to defend Finland during the war.
		Part of the Swedish response to the crisis was to mass the bulk of their forces in southern Sweden to await the expected invasion from Denmark.
	www.wfgamers.org.uk /resources/Napoleonic/russwed.htm (4800 words)

	AllRefer.com - Johan Ludvig Runeberg (Scandinavian Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The first song from Runeberg's great poem on the Russo-Swedish War of 1808–9, "The Tales of Ensign Stal" (1848–60, tr.
		Like other Finnish authors of his day, Runeberg wrote in Swedish.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/R/Runeberg.html (246 words)

	Celsius Centre for Scandinavian Studies
		By the beginning of 1810, however, Swedish hopes for a revanchist war against Russia for the return of Finland were increasing and being fuelled by Napoleon, in an ironic display of his attempts to bait countries to acquiesce to his wishes.
		War costs for the whole of 1808/1809 had reached 23 million riksdaler with 7 million coming from subsidies and the whole Swedish economy balancing at 4-5 million riksdaler.
		The Swedish defence capability (66,000 against an estimated 80,000"><18> Russians) set aside for the war against Sweden)"> was not sufficient to meet the two fronts.
	www.ssn.flinders.edu.au /scanlink/nornotes/vol1/articles/russia.html (8992 words)

	Main Document - Swedish-Russian War
		He came to the attention of Prince Repnin in the war against the Turks in 1790, and he later also served in the Russo-Swedish war of 1788-90 and against the Poles.
		In 1810 Barclay de Tolly was appointed Minister of War, succeeding the incompetent Alexei Arakchev, and also became the commander of the First Army of the West in 1812.
		In september of that year, Sandels was finally forced to retreat and the Swedish armies retreated from Finland as a whole.
	www.multi.fi /~goranfri/biobarclay.html (492 words)

	Search Results for Russo- - Encyclopædia Britannica
		Brief biographies of the victorious Swedish biplane pilots who served in the Finnish Air Force during the Russo-Finnish War.
		The Baltic states and the Russo-Finnish War, 1939–40
		The wars reflected the decline of the Ottoman Empire and resulted in the gradual southward extension of Russia's...
	www.britannica.com /search?query=Russo-&submit=Find&source=MWTEXT (362 words)

	The Napoleonic Swedish Army
		The following is the Swedish Army's 'Permanent' Organisation in Finland at the outbreak of the Russo-Swedish war in 1808.
		A French contingent started marching on Hamburg, and the Swedish General von Döbeln (in Sweden well known for his charismatic leadership for the defence in Finland) engaged the enemy on his own initiative during a couple of small engagements, but was removed from his command and reprimanded for acting on his own.
		Having hidden their true intentions, the Russian advances on the ill-prepared and not so supecting Swedish, who is ordered to leave their defensive positions and redraw, leaving many of the soldiers' families and homesteads behind enemy lines (causing much gloom among the soldiers).
	homepages.paradise.net.nz /mcnelly/vb/articles/NapoleonicSwedish.htm (4246 words)

	Ships - Galley
		They were used until the Russo-Swedish war of 1809.
		Galleys have an extremely long history, dating back to ancient times.
	www.angelfire.com /realm3/caribbeantales/ships_galley.html (185 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		During the Russo-Turkish war of 1787-91, he distinguished himself at the storm of Ochakov and also showed his worth in the Russo-Swedish War of 1788-90 and the Polish campaign of 1792-94.
		He is also wearing the Russian silver medal "In Commemoration of the Patriotic War" and the badges of the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 1st class, the Austrian Order of Maria Theresa and the Swedish Order of the Sword.
		In the portrait created for the War Gallery of 1812 he is shown against the background of Paris.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/12/b2003/hm12_3_2_5_3_1.html (579 words)

	Russo-Polish War, 1654-1667
		Russian recapture of Smolensk in the Russo-Polish war of 1654-67, posted by Smolensk - Russia, Summary of Early History by John Sloan; scroll down
		Then the appearance of an even more dangerous enemy - the Swedes - distracted Polish attention from the war in her eastern border regions; the Russians were left in control of the regions they held occupied.
		Russisch-Polnischer Krieg 1654-1656, Russisch-Polnischer Krieg 1658-1667, from Kriege der Neuzeit (Wars of the Modern Era), in German
	www.zum.de /whkmla/military/17cen/russopol16541667.html (380 words)

	SCHARF THRONE SECURED BY MALE HEIR
		House Scharf has been on the wane since the Peace of Fredrikshamn in 1809 punished King Karl III's adventurism in the Russo-Swedish War by partitioning ancestral Scharf lands amongst Prussia, Russia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
		Prior to the Queen's pregnancy, the royal line was without a legitimate heir, and the disposition of House lands and titles was subject to competing claims by distaff relations as far flung as France, Ireland, and Nevada.
		The turn of the 21st century finds the royal family adrift on the tides of public opinion, unredeemed by professional distinction and desperate for a renewal of purpose.
	www.speakeasy.org /~demiurge/heir.html (271 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Virtual Tour
		He made his name during the Russo-Turkish War of 1787 to 1791, and went on to fight in Suvorov's Italian and Swiss campaigns (1799), against Napoleon in 1805 and 1806-1807, and in the Russo-Swedish War of 1808-1809.
		In 1819 George Dawe arrived in Russia at the invitation of the Emperor Alexander I to paint portraits of the heroes of the Napoleonic Wars for a Military Gallery in the Winter Palace.
		But the peak of his glory was the Battle of Borodino in 1812, which determined the outcome of the war against Napoleon.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/08/hm88_0_1_49_1.html (321 words)

	Download
		The Turkish-Russian Wars of 1770 - 1812 were important for reasons similar to those in the wars with Sweden.
		The war far away in Indian Oceans had a major impact upon the war in European waters.
		But complacency in Turkey and a fervent dream for "the warm water port" in the hearts of the Russian crown, created an army and a navy capable of reducing the Ottoman Empire to "the weak man of Europe".
	www.wargamer.com /manofwar/download.asp (1225 words)

	The Pocket Guide to World History - Russian Revolution to Ruthenian Church
		Russia gains Black Sea to Balkans from crumbling Ottoman Empire in 10 wars.
	www.benlo.com /history/ph685.html (58 words)

	Paradox Interactive Forums - Wars, Treaties & Alliances
		In the case of war, the nation of Ottominia shall loan/ give (upon later agreement) Venice 100,000 Lira per every three monthes until there is either a request to stop, or there is a stop to hostitlities.
		In the case of war, the nation of Venice shall loan/ give (upon later agreement) Ottominia 100,000 Lira per every three monthes until either it is requested to stop, or there is a stop to hostitlities.
		The Swedish forces stands outside of Moscow in the year of our lord 1559, and Karl Fleming and the Russian representative met in Novgorod to sign a peace, dictated by his Majesty Gustav I of Sweden.
	www.europa-universalis.com /forum/showthread.php?t=127207&page=2 (5716 words)

	Middle East Open Encyclopedia: July 9
		1790 - Russo-Swedish War: Second Battle of Svensksund - In the Baltic Sea, the Swedish Navy captures one third of the Russian fleet.
		1755 - French and Indian War: Braddock Expedition - British troops and colonial militiamen are ambushed and suffer a devastating defeat by French and Native American forces.
		1943 - World War II: Operation Husky - Allied forces perform an amphibious invasion of Sicily.
	www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref/index.php?title=July_9 (1378 words)

	CNN - Almanac - August 17, 1997
		In 1743, the Peace of Abo was signed, ending the Russo-Swedish War of 1741-43.
		In 1424, the English defeated the Scots and French at the Battle of Verneuil during the Hundred Years' War.
		In 1585, Spanish forces, led by Duke of Parma, took Antwerp after a 14-month siege in the Dutch War of Liberation.
	www.cnn.com /almanac/9708/17 (598 words)

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