Qualla: Battle of Grönvikssund https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Grönvikssund https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund Battle of Grönvikssund: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund/ By seven in the evening the Russian gunners had nothing left to load. Captain Selivanov gave the order to break off, and what was left of his squadron worked eastward through the sounds off Kustavi with thirty-five Swedish gun sloops in pursuit. Most of his hulls had been shot through. The chase ran on until the light failed, and then the Swedes turned back. On 30 August 1808, in a stretch of Finnish archipelago water that most charts do not bother to name, Sweden won one of its last clear victories in Finland and gained almost nothing by it. The crown had held this coast for the better part of six centuries. Within fifteen months it would be gone.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/0/battle-of-gronvikssund-wp/u6z0-battle-of-gr-nvikssund-the-war-that-came-in-february.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Grönvikssund: Boats Built for These Waters https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund/ The gun sloop was a specialist's answer to a specialist's problem. Between fifteen and nineteen metres long, three and a half to four metres across the beam, drawing rather less than a metre of water, it could go almost anywhere a rowboat could go. Ten to twelve pairs of oars dro...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/0/battle-of-gronvikssund-wp/u6z0-battle-of-gr-nvikssund-boats-built-for-these-waters.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Grönvikssund: The Sound https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund/ Lieutenant Colonel Johan Ludvig Brant had been given the job of clearing Russian coastal forces working the waters around Nystad, the town the Finns call Uusikaupunki. When he learned that roughly twenty Russian gun sloops and yawls had left Nystad heading for Turku, he set off a...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/0/battle-of-gronvikssund-wp/u6z0-battle-of-gr-nvikssund-the-sound.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Grönvikssund: The Arithmetic of a Victory https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund/ Nine Russian sloops went down. Two Swedish ones did. Read the butcher's bill instead of the ship count and the day looks different: the Swedes counted 225 men killed or wounded, the Russians 114, and the Russian figure is known to be incomplete. The side that won lost roughly twi...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/0/battle-of-gronvikssund-wp/u6z0-battle-of-gr-nvikssund-the-arithmetic-of-a-victory.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Grönvikssund: What It Bought https://qualla.com/battle-of-gronvikssund/ Grönvikssund did what a tactical victory can sometimes do: it bought time. The Russians shelved their plan to carry the war across to Åland, and their coastal forces spent the following weeks escorting supply convoys instead of forming a landing force. That was the whole of it. B...

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