Siege of Sveaborg
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The siege of Sveaborg was a siege by Imperial Russian forces of the sea fort of Sveaborg, off the coast of Helsingfors; at the time Finland was part of the Kingdom of Sweden. It took place in the spri
Sveaborg surrenders to the Russians
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Buxhoeveden was a Baltic German general of the infantry and government official in Russian service. He participated in several of Russia's wars in the late 18th and early 19
Siege of Sveaborg
…fleet which had been docked at the fortress for the winter as well as all the supplies had to be destroyed by burning them down. Russian forces under Friedrich Wilhelm von Buxhoeveden laid siege to Sveaborg after the fall of Helsingfors on 2 March 1808. However, the Russian force which had captured Helsingfors consisted only of roughly…
Portrait by Vladimir Borovikovsky, c. 1809