Siege of Sveaborg

Siege of Sveaborg
	Part of the Finnish War
	; Sveaborg surrenders to the Russians
Date	14 March [O.S. 2 March] 1808 – 3 May [O.S. 21 April] 1808
Location	Sveaborg, Swedish Finland
Result	Russian victory
Belligerents
Russia	Sweden
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Fyodorovich Buksgevden; Pieter van Suchtelen	Carl Olof Cronstedt
Strength
6,500 men,; 59 cannons	7,503+
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Whole garrison captured,; 58 guns lost

The siege of Sveaborg was a siege by Imperial Russian forces of the sea fort of Sveaborg (Finnish: Suomenlinna), off the coast of Helsingfors (Helsinki); at the time Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden. It took place in the spring of 1808, during the Finnish War. Despite its formidable reputation as "the Gibraltar of the North", the fortress surrendered after a siege of two months. As its capitulation was followed by the rapid collapse of Swedish resistance elsewhere, and ultimately the Russian conquest of Finland, the siege is often regarded as the decisive battle of the war.^[3]

^ Mattila (1983), p. 238-239.
^ ^a ^b Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky, Описание Финляндской войны на сухом пути и на море в 1808 и 1809 годах, St. Petersburg, 1841, pp. 106—108
^ Carl Nordling, "Capturing ‘The Gibraltar of the North‘: How Swedish Sveaborg was taken by the Russians in 1808." Journal of Slavic Military Studies 17#4 (2004): 715-725.

[FOOTNOTEMattila1983238-239-1] Mattila (1983), p. 238-239.

[MD-2] Mikhailovsky-Danilevsky, Описание Финляндской войны на сухом пути и на море в 1808 и 1809 годах, St. Petersburg, 1841, pp. 106—108

[3] Carl Nordling, "Capturing ‘The Gibraltar of the North‘: How Swedish Sveaborg was taken by the Russians in 1808." Journal of Slavic Military Studies 17#4 (2004): 715-725.

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