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Battle Of Hogland
The Battle of Hogland was a naval battle that took place on during the Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790). Origins On the outbreak of war with Russia in 1788, Sweden planned to attack the Russian capital St. Petersburg. One Swedish army was to advance through Finland; a second army, accompanied by the Swedish coastal flotilla, was to advance along the Finnish coast into the Gulf of Finland; while a third army sailed with the Swedish battlefleet in order to land at Oranienbaum to advance on St. Petersburg. To succeed, the Russian Baltic Fleet had to be eliminated or blockaded in its ports at Reval (now Tallinn) and Kronstadt. A part of the Swedish battlefleet, 12 ships of the line and 5 frigates under the command of Prince Charles, Duke of Södermanland, had set sail from Karlskrona on 9 June 1788. While Prince Charles had overall command of the fleet, he was assisted by Admiral Anton Johan Wrangel (the younger) and had the experienced naval officer Lieutenant Colonel Otto He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)
The Russo-Swedish War of 1788–1790 was fought between Gustavian era, Sweden and Russian Empire, Russia from June 1788 to August 1790. The war was ended by the Treaty of Värälä on 14 August 1790 and took place concomitantly with both the Austro-Turkish War (1788–1791), Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792) and Theatre War. The war was, overall, mostly insignificant for the parties involved. King Gustav III, Gustav III of Sweden initiated the war for domestic political reasons, hoping to gain support from the opposition. Despite forming an alliance with the Ottoman Empire, Sweden failed to secure support from Kingdom of Great Britain, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, and Kingdom of Prussia, Prussia. Sweden's initial plan to attack Saint Petersburg and instigate a coup to depose Empress Catherine the Great, Catherine II did not materialize. The war led to Denmark–Norway declaring war on Sweden, but peace was eventually signed on 9 July 1789 after diplomatic intervention by Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anton Johan Wrangel (the Younger)
Anton may refer to: People *Anton (given name), a list of people with the given name *Anton (surname), a list of people with the surname Places *Anton Municipality, Bulgaria **Anton, Sofia Province, a village *Antón District, Panama **Antón, a town and capital of the district *Anton, Colorado, an unincorporated town *Anton, Texas, a city *Anton, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community *River Anton, Hampshire, United Kingdom Other uses *Case Anton, codename for the German and Italian occupation of Vichy France in 1942 *Anton (computer), a highly parallel supercomputer for molecular dynamics simulations * ''Anton'' (1973 film), a Norwegian film * ''Anton'' (2008 film), an Irish film * Anton Cup, the championship trophy of the Swedish junior hockey league J20 SuperElit * Dynamite Anton, an name of the main protagonist of Antonblast, a 2024 video game and Antonball Deluxe ''Antonball Deluxe'', stylized in all caps, is a 2021 Puzzle video game, puzzle-Breakout clone, brick b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Trevenen
James Trevenen (1 January 1760 – 9 July 1790) was an officer in the Royal Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy. Born in Cornwall "of a very respectable family", he was educated at the Royal Naval Academy at Portsmouth and went to sea in 1776 as a midshipman on the HMS Resolution (1771), ''Resolution'' under Captain James Cook, where he assisted Cook as a surveyor and navigator. On completing the voyage in 1780 he was promoted to lieutenant by John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, the Earl of Sandwich, and joined HMS ''Conquestador''. In April 1781 he sailed under James King (Royal Navy officer), James King, whom he had served with in ''Resolution'', until the end of the war in 1783. Unhappy with peacetime life, Trevenen attempted to get employment from the Admiralty (United Kingdom), Admiralty in 1787, but was unsuccessful. As a result, he drew up a plan for a voyage of exploration, seeking to establish a sailing route between Kamchatka and Japan and northern China. This plan was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strategic Victory
A strategic victory is a victory that brings long-term advantage to the victor and disturbs the enemy's ability to wage a war. When historians speak of a victory in general, they usually refer to a strategic victory. Usually it comes together with a tactical victory on the field that allowed to further progress the objectives of the campaign, but it is also possible for a tactical defeat to be considered a strategic victory because it managed to achieve other goals (e.g. by imposing so many casualties on the opposing side to cripple their advance, resulting in a Pyrrhic victory for the enemy). Examples * Battle of Antietam, American Civil War: The battle itself was a tactical draw, as the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee was forced to end its incursion into the North while the Union Army of the Potomac under George B. McClellan was unable to capitalize on its numerical advantage to destroy the Confederate army outright before the latter retreated ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naval Battle
Naval warfare is combat in and on the sea, the ocean, or any other battlespace involving a major body of water such as a large lake or wide river. The armed forces branch designated for naval warfare is a navy. Naval operations can be broadly divided into riverine/littoral applications (brown-water navy), open-ocean applications (blue-water navy), between riverine/littoral and open-ocean applications (green-water navy), although these distinctions are more about strategic scope than tactical or operational division. The strategic offensive purpose of naval warfare is projection of force by water, and its strategic defensive purpose is to challenge the similar projection of force by enemies. History Mankind has fought battles on the sea for more than 3,000 years. Even in the interior of large landmasses, transportation before the advent of extensive railways was largely dependent upon rivers, lakes, canals, and other navigable waterways. The latter were crucial in the developm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seskar
Seskar (; ; ), or Siskar, is an island in the Gulf of Finland, part of the Leningrad Oblast of Russia. Important Bird Area The island has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports populations of many species of waterfowl and waders on passage, as well as breeding Arctic herring gulls. History The island was an independent municipality of Finland populated by Finns since at least the 16th century. The Seiskari municipality was formed from the Koivisto municipality in 1903. It was part of the province of Viipuri in the South Karelia region. It was ceded to the Soviet Union following the 1940 Moscow Peace Treaty. Prior to the transfer of sovereignty, it was also known as Siskar. Shipwrecks The island has been involved in many shipwrecks over the centuries, including some ships sunk, wrecked or otherwise lost: *In 1777, the British ship ''Mercey'' was wrecked near the island. She was on a voyage from Saint Petersburg to London. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prins Gustafs Sista Strid
Prins (Dutch: Prince) is a Dutch surname. In 2007, Prins was the 48th most common surname in the Netherlands (15,361 people).Leender BrouwerThe top 100 surnames in the Netherlands/ref> The surname does not derive from an ancestor who was a prince. Instead, the original may have lived in or worked at a location, like a windmill or inn, with that name, or was called "the prince" as a nickname. Historical records note Sephardic Italian Jewish surname of Principe or Prinzi later being changed to the more locally accepted Prins (and then Prince once in England or Colonial America). People with the name Prins include: *Ada Prins (1879–1977), Dutch chemist *A. H. J. Prins (1921–2000), Dutch Africanist and maritime anthropologist * (1845–1919), Belgian jurist and criminologist *Alwin de Prins (born 1978), Luxembourgish swimmer *Anna Prins (born 1991), American basketball player * Anthony Winkler Prins (1817–1903), author of Winkler Prins a Dutch encyclopedia * (1816–1867), Dutch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bolshoi Tyuters , St.Petersburg
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Bolshoi (, meaning ''big'', ''large'', ''great'', ''grand'', etc.) may refer to: *Bolshoi Theatre, a ballet and opera theatre in Moscow, Russia **Bolshoi Ballet, a ballet company at the Bolshoi Theatre *Bolshoi Theatre, Saint Petersburg, a ballet and opera theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia *The Bolshoi, an English post-punk band * 26793 Bolshoi, a main-belt asteroid *Bolshoi cosmological simulation, a NASA simulation of the universe *Bolshoi, a bell in Danilov Monastery, Moscow *Command Bolshoi, Japanese professional wrestler See also *Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Uzbekistan *Bolshoi Drama Theatre Tovstonogov Bolshoi Drama Theater (; literally ''Tovstonogov Great Drama Theater''), formerly known as Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater () (1931–1992), often referred to as the Bolshoi Drama Theater and by the acronym BDT (), is a theater in Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archipelago Fleet
The archipelago fleet (), officially the "fleet of the army" (), was a Navy, maritime branch of the Swedish Armed Forces which existed between 1756 and 1823. Its purpose was to protect the coasts of Sweden, which was surrounded by a natural barrier of archipelagoes (or skerry, skerries). Throughout its existence, the fleet was a largely independent arm of the Swedish Army, separate from the Swedish Navy, with the exception of a few years in the late 1760s. In a number of respects, it was a precursor of the Swedish Coastal Artillery and its coastal fleet. The fleet's vessels consisted of traditional Mediterranean-style galleys, Pram (ship), prams, gunboats and specially designed Broadside (naval), broadside-armed "archipelago frigates". All types had the ability to operate under oars and a small draft (hull), draft, enabling them to navigate the shallow and often treacherous inshore waters. The archipelago fleet was active in several wars from 1757 to 1814, such as the Seven Years' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
