Finnish War
1808–1809 war between Russia and Sweden / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the 1808–1809 war between Russia and Sweden. For the 1939–1940 war between the Soviet Union and Finland, see Winter War. For other uses, see Finnish War (disambiguation).
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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August 1808: 55,000 |
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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] |
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