Carolean Death March

When

8 Jan 1719

Kind

Event

Coordinates

63.02° N, 11.81° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Carolean Death March.

Carolean Death March begins: A catastrophic retreat by a largely-Finnish Swedish-Carolean army under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt across the Tydalen mountains in a blizzard kills around 3,700 men and cripples a further 600 for life.

Swedish retreat in the Great Northern War

The Carolean Death March, also known as the Catastrophe on Øyfjellet was the disastrous retreat by a force of Swedish soldiers, under the command of Carl Gustaf Armfeldt, across the Tydalen mountain range in Trøndelag, Norway, around the new year 1718–1719.

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