Battle of Bomarsund

When

Aug 1854

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

60.21° N, 20.24° E

Description

August 1854 Crimean War battle

Battle of the Åland War

The Battle of Bomarsund, in August 1854, took place during the Åland War, which was part of the Crimean War, when an Anglo-French expeditionary force besieged, captured, and subsequently destroyed a Russian fortress. It was the only major action of the war to take place at Bomarsund in the Baltic Sea.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Battle of Bomarsund: Russian troops on the island of Bomarsund, in Åland, surrender to French–British troops”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “guerre de Crimée : le corps expéditionnaire de la Baltique met le siège devant la forteresse de Bomarsund qui capitule le 16 août”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page

• Crimean23 Oct 1853 · Interstate war · Deaths 264,200