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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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10,000 killed or wounded[1] |
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.
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