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Battle of the Great Northern War
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- Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp (1700)
- Swedish Baltic dominions
- Courland and Western Lithuania
- Poland
and
Saxony
- Russia
and Eastern Lithuania
- Sweden proper (including
Finland
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- Moldavia
- Swedish German dominions
- Mecklenburg and Holstein-Gottorp
- Norway
- Naval battles
- Treaties
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The
Battle of Stromstad
took place on July 19, 1717 at
Stromstad
during the
Great Northern War
. The
Swedish
army of about 1,800 men under the command of
Johan Giertta
defeated the
Danish
fleet of several larger vessels and perhaps 4,000 men under
Peder Tordenskjold
. Peter tried to destroy the stocks of supplies Sweden had gathered for the upcoming
invasion of Norway
. In the battle about 200 Swedes were either dead or wounded and about 350 Norwegians.
Battle
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On the night of July 8, the Norwegian ships were thrown towards Stromstad harbor, where they anchored up at 4 o'clock in the morning and began shelling the harbor fortifications. The liner ships concentrated on Laholmen and the barges on the other batteries. After a few hours of artillery preparation, six galleries were sent in to disembark on Laholmen. However, the defense was not defeated and only two galleys managed to be placed on the beach, where they could be damaged by Swedish infantry. Tordenskjold himself was wounded in the leg and the Norwegians were forced to withdraw with a loss of 350 men. The Swedish losses should have been considerably smaller.
Aftermath
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The Swedes managed to defend their connecting lines for the army's operations in Norway. After the two unsuccessful attacks on Gothenburg and Stromstad in 1717, Tordenskjold was deprived of command of the Danish navy in the Kattegat for 1718 and subjected to the Schoutby night Rosenpalm.
The successful defense of Gothenburg and Stromstad again strengthened the Swedes' confidence after the previous defeats. The Danish North Sea Squadron henceforth remained more in the shadows and limited its operations to purely defensive companies. Swedish ships could soon go undisturbed between Gothenburg and Stromstad, at least if they had coverage.
References
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- Knut Lundblad, Georg Friedrich Jenssen-Tusch: Geschichte Karl des Zwolften, Konigs von Schweden, Band 2, Hamburg (1835). pp. 542?547.