Crossing the Gulf of Bothnia
| Crossing Kvarken | |||||||||
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| Part of the Finnish War | |||||||||
Crossing Kvarken | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Sweden | Russian Empire | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
| Georg Carl von Döbeln | Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 1,000 | 3,000 | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 400 captured | ~200 | ||||||||
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The crossing the Gulf of Bothnia, specifically Kvarken (Swedish: korsar Bottenviken; Russian: Переход через Кваркен), was a march of Russians through Kvarken, Gulf of Bothnia, to the territory of Sweden at Umeå. It was during the Finnish War in March 1809.