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504: 520:. Several more clashes were fought between the fleets during the day. Fighting started again on 4 June with even less results than on the previous day. Admiral Kruse apparently had no intention to actually engage the Swedish fleet, only to delay them long enough for the other Russian naval squadrons to reach them. Duke Charles became aware of Russian squadrons approaching from the west and withdraw to north-west with Kruse following close behind and already on 6 June Russian squadrons had managed to link up. 591: 155: 142: 46: 515:
on 3 June 1790. The engagement between the two roughly equal strength fleets lasted for four hours without success on either side. Swedish coastal fleet sortied ships to support the open sea fleet but by the time they reached the open sea fleet battle had already ended for the day and since the small
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approached slowly approached the Swedish fleet arriving on sight already on 7 June but steadily moved their positions closer coming with 2 nautical miles on 26 June 1790 trapping both Swedish fleets in addition to the king, his brother and 30,000 men. By this time it had been joined with the rest of
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insisted on keeping the open sea fleet near the coastal fleet. To accomplish this the open sea fleet under Duke Charles sailed to the mouth of the Bay of Viborg and anchored for repairs on 6 June. Russian fleet which consisted at this point of 29 ships of the line, 11 frigates, 11 brigs and 8 rowed
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there were practically no Russian ground forces to oppose the Swedes in the area. On the other hand, the failure of Duke Charles fleet to prevent Russian squadrons from joining was in practice a strategic Russian victory which blocked the approach to Saint Petersburg.
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ordered the open sea fleet to sail towards Kronstadt in order to protect the coastal fleets flank. Meanwhile, coastal fleets had managed to maul the Russian coastal units at
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was an inspired action which according to historians caused severe problems for the Russians as at time, 2 June 1790, Swedish fleets arrived to the vicinity of
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had linked up Swedish naval commanders chose not to challenge them and instead withdrew. Initially Duke Charles would have preferred to retire to
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had failed to inflict defeat to considerably smaller Russian naval squadron located instead suffering losses in the action at
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making it possible for the coastal fleet to continue towards the eastern Gulf of Finland. Coastal fleet continued towards
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Leyer G. A. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Military and Maritime Sciences. Saint Petersburg. Volume 4. 1889. P. 390
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fleet and defeat them both to prevent Russian squadrons from joining and also to open the sea route to
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coastal vessels were unable to keep up with open sea fleet they had to withdraw back to
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Swedish open sea fleet was met by the Russian Kronstadt squadron while approaching
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on 25 May 1790 to wait for further instructions. On 29 May King
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Battle of Kronstadt, as depicted in Nordischer Kriegsschauplaz
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where the damage could have been properly repaired but King
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naval forces sought to engage the Kronstadt squadron of
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while repeatedly raiding the coast finally reaching
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Raid on Kronstadt
Russo-Swedish War (1788–90)

Alexey Bogolyubov
Gulf of Finland
Kronstadt
60°04′19″N 29°15′11″E / 60.072°N 29.253°E / 60.072; 29.253
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Sweden
Russian Empire
Duke Charles of Södermanland
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Russo-Swedish War
(1788–1790)

Hogland
Kilduin
Kvistrum
Porrassalmi
Uttismalm
Kaipiais
Parkumäki
Öland
Svensksund I
Kalmar
Elgsö
Baltischport
Valkeala
Pardakoski–Kärnakoski
Reval

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