Back الحرب الفنلندية Arabic Rus-İsveç müharibəsi (1808-1809) Azerbaijani Фінская вайна Byelorussian Guerra finlandesa Catalan Finská válka Czech Den finske krig Danish Russisch-Schwedischer Krieg (1808–1809) German Finna Milito Esperanto Guerra finlandesa Spanish Vene-Rootsi sõda (1808–1809) Estonian
| Finnish War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of Russo-Swedish wars | |||||||||
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August 1808: 55,000 |
August 1808: 36,000 | ||||||||
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7,000 killed or wounded[1] 53,000 died of disease and other hardships[2] | ||||||||
The Finnish War (Swedish: Finska kriget, Russian: Финляндская война, Finnish: Suomen sota) was fought between the Kingdom of Sweden and the Russian Empire from 21 February 1808 to 17 September 1809 as part of the Napoleonic Wars. As a result of the war, the eastern third of Sweden was established as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland, a state under the rule of the Russian Empire. Other notable effects were the Swedish parliament's adoption of a new constitution and the establishment of the House of Bernadotte, the new Swedish royal house, in 1818.
- ^ a b Hornborg 1955, p. 261.
- ^ Sandström 2008, p. 226.