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Battle of Bomarsund
Part of the Åland War and the Crimean War
A sketch of the quarter deck of HMS Bulldog in Bomarsund, Edwin T. Dolby
Date
3 – 16 August 1854
Location
Bomarsund, Åland
Result
Anglo-French victory
Belligerents
United Kingdom France
Russia
Commanders and leaders
Charles Napier Alexandre Deschenes
Jakob Bodisco
Strength
32,000 25 paddle sloops[1]
3,000[1]
Casualties and losses
85 killed and wounded[2]
53 killed and wounded 2,000 captured
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Crimean War
Balkans
Oltenița
Cetate
Calafat
Silistra
Caucasus
Akhaltsikhe
Başgedikler
Nigoiti
Choloki
Kurekdere
Kars
Naval Operations
Sinop
Åland War
Halkokari
Bomarsund
Suomenlinna
Petropavlovsk
Kinburn
Crimea
Alma
Sevastopol
Malakoff
Great Redan
Balaclava
Charge of the Light Brigade
The Thin Red Line
Inkerman
Eupatoria
Taganrog
Chernaya
Computer generated image of Bomarsund. Note: the roads and bridge are modern and not from 1854.
The Battle of Bomarsund, in August 1854, took place during the Åland War, which was part of the Crimean War, when an Anglo-French expeditionary force attacked a Russian fortress. It was the only major action of the war to take place at Bomarsund in the Baltic Sea.
^ abTyrrell, Henry (1858). The History of the War with Russia. Volume 3. p. 334.
^Troupes de Marines.org
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