Franco-Swedish War
| Franco-Swedish War | |||||||||
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| Part of the Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||
Swedish Pomerania (centre-right) in 1812 | |||||||||
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1805: 13,000 1810: 40,000 |
1805: 12,125 1810: 27,000 | ||||||||
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[a] Gustav IV Adolf was deposed by a coup d'etat on March 9, 1809, and Charles XIII was appointed king in his place. [b] Until 1808 | |||||||||
The Franco-Swedish War or Pomeranian War was the first involvement by Sweden in the Napoleonic Wars. The country joined the Third Coalition in an effort to defeat France under Napoleon Bonaparte.