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Helsinki village landing
| Helsinki village landing | |||||||
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| Part of the Finnish War | |||||||
 Inskeppningen efter striden vid Helsinge, by Jacob Hägg | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Sweden |
 Russian Empire | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
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Gustaf Boije Gustaf Olof Lagerbring |
Pyotr Bagration Karl Gustav von Baggovut | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
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Swedish accounts: 3,300[1][2] Russian accounts: 4,000[3]–5,000[4] |
Russian accounts: 4,000[3]–4,500[5] Swedish accounts: 5,000[2]–6,000[1] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
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Swedish accounts: 657[6]–826[1] Russian accounts: c. 1,000 killed and wounded, 350 captured, 15 cannons, 1 standard, 1 wagon train.[4] |
Russian accounts: 400[4]–524[6] | ||||||
The Helsinki village landing, or the Combat of Helsinge[7] (Russian: Бой у Гельсинге), was fought during the Finnish War between Sweden and the Russian Empire on 26–28 September 1808 (J:14-16 S), a part of the battles of the Turku archipelago.
- ^ a b c Schulman 1909, pp. 227–231.
- ^ a b Montgomery 1842, pp. 54–65.
- ^ a b van Suchtelen 1854, pp. 133–137.
- ^ a b c Velichko et al. 1912.
- ^ Hornborg 1955, pp. 188–191.
- ^ a b Generalstaben 1910, pp. 236–237.
- ^ Nive 1910, p. 271.
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