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Battle of Dynekilen
Part of the Great Northern War
Tordenskjold i Dynekilen by Carl Neumann
Date
June 28, 1716 (O.S.) July 8, 1716 (N.S.)
Location
Bohuslän
Result
Dano-Norwegian victory
Belligerents
Swedish Empire
Denmark-Norway
Commanders and leaders
Olof Strömstierna
Peter Tordenskjold
Strength
1,284 men[1] 13 warships, 14 merchant vessels, 1 land battery with 40 heavy cannons and 72 light cannons in total[2][a]
931 men[5] 7 warships with 97 heavy cannons, 38 light cannons and 2 howitzers in total[2]
Casualties and losses
9 warships captured, 4 warships sunk, 5 merchants captured, 9 merchants destroyed[b] 21 men or more captured, unknown number of killed and wounded[6]
19 killed, 57 wounded[2]
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Great Northern War
Denmark and Holstein-Gottorp (1700)
1st Tönning
Reinbek
Humlebæk
Swedish Baltic dominions
1st Riga
Varja
1st Narva
Düna
Rauge
Erastfer
Hummelshof
Nöteborg
Systerbäck
Wesenberg
2nd Narva
Neva
Koporye
Kolkanpää
2nd Riga
Courland and Western Lithuania
Tryškiai
Darsūniškis
Vilnius
Saločiai
Jakobstadt
Palanga
Gemauerthof
1st Grodno
Valkininkai
Kletsk
2nd Grodno
Poland and Saxony
Kliszów
Pułtusk
Thorn
Poznań
Lemberg
Poniec
Warsaw
Praga
Fraustadt
Rosenhain
Frauenwald
Kalisz
Koniecpol
Russia and Eastern Lithuania
Petschora
Holowczyn
Malatitze
Rajovka
Lesnaya
Desna
Baturyn
Veprik
Oposhnya
Krasnokutsk–Gorodnoye
Sokolki
Poltava
Perevolochna
Sweden proper (including Finland)
Helsingborg
(2nd Viborg
Helsinki
Pälkäne
Napue)
Gothenburg
Göta Älv
Strömstad
Marstrand
Stäket
Moldavia
Pruth Campaign
Bender
Swedish German dominions
Wismar
Usedom
Stresow
Stralsund
Mecklenburg and Holstein-Gottorp
Gadebusch
2nd Tönning
Norway
Høland
Dynekilen
Fredriksten
Carolean Death March
Naval battles
Køge Bay
Fladstrand
Hogland
Gangut
Fehmarn
Rügen
Ösel
Grengam
Treaties
The naval Battle of Dynekilen (Danish: Slaget ved Dynekilen) took place on 8 July 1716 during the Great Northern War between a Dano-Norwegian fleet under Peter Tordenskjold and a Swedish fleet under Olof Strömstierna. The battle resulted in a Dano-Norwegian victory.
^Dan H. Andersen. Mandsmod og kongegunst: en biografi om Peter Wessel Tordenskiold. Aschehoug, 2004. p. 207
^ abcdeNils Modig. Strömstad: Gränsstad i ofred och krig. Warne förlag, 2013. pp. 74–86
^ abOlav Bergersen. Tordenskiolds brev. Facsimile, 1963. pp. 229–230
^Knut Lundblad. Georg Friedrich Jenssen-Tusch: Geschichte Karl des Zwölften, Königs von Schweden, Band 2. Hamburg (1835). p. 491
^William Coucheron–Aamot. Det norske folk paa land og sjø. Det norske aktieforlag, 1901. p. 233
^ abLars Ericson Wolke. Sjöslag och rysshärjningar : kampen om Östersjön under stora nordiska kriget 1700-1721. Norstedts, 2012. pp. 229–234
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