Finnish War

Finnish War
	Part of Russo–Swedish Wars and Napoleonic Wars
	; Map of notable locations in Finland during the war
Date	21 February 1808 – 17 September 1809; (1 year, 6 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location	Finland, Sweden
Result	Russian victory, Treaty of Fredrikshamn
Territorial; changes	Separation of Finland from Sweden and Finland becoming an autonomous part of Russia
Belligerents
Russian Empire; ; Supported by; France; Spain	Sweden; ; Supported by; United Kingdom; Portugal [1]
Commanders and leaders
Fyodor Buxhoeveden; Bogdan von Knorring; Pyotr Bagration; Barclay de Tolly; Nikolay Ivanovich Demidov	Wilhelm Mauritz Klingspor; Carl Johan Adlercreutz; Georg Carl von Döbeln
Strength
August 1808: 95,000+ soldiers	August 1808: 36,000+ soldiers

The Finnish War (Swedish: Finska kriget, Finnish: Suomen sota, Russian: Русско-шведская война 1808—1809) was a war fought in 1808-1809 between Russia and Sweden. King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden lost, and Sweden lost its Eastern third. The lost land became the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland.

References

See Anglo-Russian War#Lisbon Incident.

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[1] See Anglo-Russian War#Lisbon Incident.