| Battle of Hogland (1705) | |||||||
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| Part of Great Northern War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 Swedish Navy |
 Imperial Russian Navy | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Cornelius Ankarstierna | unknown | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| 1 ship of the line | 7 galleys | ||||||
The battle of Hogland 1705 was a minor naval battle between the Swedish ship of the line Reval and 7 Russian galleys. After several hours of fighting the Swedes were victorius. It was the first time that Russian galleys took part in a naval battle in the Baltic Sea.
Sources[]
- Ehrensvärd, Ulla; Kokkonen, Pellervo; Nurminen, Juha (1995). Mare Balticum : 2000 år av östersjöns historia [2000 years of history of the Baltic Sea] (in Swedish). ISBN 9511139932.
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