Talk:Russo-Swedish War (1788–1790)

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Losses[edit]

The page on Gustav III lists Russian losses in the Battle of Svensksund at 7000. This page gives a much higher number. How are the numbers obtained and which one (or either one?) is correct ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.72.204.188 (talk) 01:04, 25 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I believe this battle was hyped up in Sweden enormously and various casualties are assigned to this battle at random. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary says the Russians lost 55 ships and up to 600 sailors were taken prisoner. Actually, Prince von Nassau-Siegen was a fool to pursue the Swedes into their own port where his ships were easy prey for coastal batteries. He was fired as a consequence of this incompetence. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 16:58, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The list of ships lost by Russians is here. The same online book repeats the claims that Russian casulaties amounted to 7,000. --Ghirla ^-трёп- 17:13, 5 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The sentence "War was far from popular, even less so in the eastern part of Sweden (modern day Finland)." is weird. It leads people to believe that "Finland" is somehow a modern name for these lands. Eastern part of Sweden was called Finland in those days in maps (Finland is a Swedish name for these lands after all). The term is similar to Palestine. Kings also added "Grand duke of Finland" to their list of titles already from 16th century. Maps: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Gerhard_Mercator-Svecia_et_Norvegia_cum_confinys_1595.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grand_duchy_of_finland_1662.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Charta_%C3%B6fver_Svea_och_G%C3%B6ta_Riken_med_Finland_och_Norland.jpg

I would either remove "(modern day)" from the sentence for being superfluous, or just replace with "even less so in Finland." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BB:440:6D40:252E:295C:1F30:6A4B (talk) 12:15, 29 December 2018 (UTC) And to continue my monologue; it's also factually incorrect as modern day Finland has significantly different borders from Finland of 1790. Significant part of modern day Finland (western parts of Karelia) were controlled by Russia. therefore I will remove the "modern day" from the comment. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BB:440:6D40:252E:295C:1F30:6A4B (talk) 15:03, 29 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Swedo - Russian War[edit]

The War was fought against best advice and under outright protest from Swedish Military Command on royal authority unprovoked against Russia.

It is, was, and should be called the Swedish - Russian war, since it was all in all a war declared by Sweden and fought solely on Swedish initiative. CS 21:56, 16 April 2023 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by CSjoholm (talk • contribs)