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The Swedish attack on Russia caused Denmark–Norway to declare war on Sweden in August, in accordance with its treaty obligations to Russia. A Norwegian army briefly invaded Sweden and won the Battle of Kvistrum Bridge , before peace was signed on 9 July 1789, following the diplomatic intervention of Great Britain and Prussia.
In 1808 Russia, in alliance with France, had conquered Finland from Sweden. The following year the Russians invaded northern Sweden in an attempt to push the Finnish border westwards, but Swedish resistance at Sävar and Ratan —the last battles fought on Swedish soil—persuaded the Russians to abandon this effort and agree to peace .
The Battle of Sävar was fought on Saturday, 19 August 1809, between Swedish and Russian forces, during the Finnish War; it was the last pitched battle to be fought in Sweden. After the Russian conquest of eastern Sweden (present-day Finland) in 1808, the Swedish forces retreated to actual Sweden.
- 19 August 1809
- Russian victory
- Sävar, in Västerbotten, Sweden
The true goal of the Russian Emperor, who launched a war against Sweden in February 1808, wasn't at all to force the latter to join the blockade and fully close the Baltic Sea to Britain,...
When France and Russia signed the Treaty of Tilsit in 1807, Gustav stubbornly accepted war, even with Russia. Denmark, which had sided with France in October 1807, declared war against Sweden in 1808. Britain, at the moment busy in Spain, could offer little help. Sweden thus became politically isolated, with enemies in the east, south, and west.
Russia, having begun to mass forces on the Finnish frontier in November 1807, invaded Swedish Finland, with Danish support, on February 21, 1808.
152 captured. 200 killed or wounded. 900–1,200 captured. The Dano–Swedish War of 1808–1809 was a war between Denmark–Norway and Sweden due to Denmark–Norway's alliance with France and Sweden's alliance with the United Kingdom during the Napoleonic Wars. Neither Sweden nor Denmark-Norway had wanted war to begin with but once pushed ...
