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Battle of Bomarsund | |||||||
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Part of the Åland War and the Crimean War | |||||||
![]() A painting of the battle by Antoine Léon Morel-Fatio | |||||||
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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 |
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.