What the records say
- When
- 24 Aug 1789
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 60.45° N, 26.99° E
- Description
- 1789 naval battle between the Swedish Navy and the Imperial Russian Navy
- Naval
- yes
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: battles and siegesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The first naval battle of the Svensksund begins in the Gulf of Finland”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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