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 the 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 within 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.