Battle of Grengam

Battle of Grengam
	Part of Great Northern War
	; The Battle of Grengam, 1720 by Ferdinand Victor Perrot.
Date	27 July 1720 (O.S.); 7 August 1720 (N.S.)
Location	Near Granhamn in the Ledsund strait, Åland, Sweden (now Finland)
Result	See aftermath
Belligerents
Swedish Navy	Imperial Russian Navy
Commanders and leaders
Vice Admiral Carl Georg Siöblad	General Mikhail Golitsyn; Admiral Matija Zmajević
Strength
1 Ship of the line ; 4 frigates ; 3 galleys ; 6 smaller craft; over 1,000 sailors	61 galleys ; 29 boats ; 11,000 sailors and soldiers
Casualties and losses
103 killed, ; 407 taken prisoner, ; 4 frigates captured	Russian accounts:; 1 galley burnt; 42 galleys damaged; 82 killed and 203–236 wounded; Swedish accounts:; 43 galleys; 1,100 to 2,000 killed

The Battle of Grengam (Russian: Гренгамское морское сражение, Swedish: Slaget vid Ledsund or Slaget vid Föglöfjärden), Finnish: Flisön taistelu of 1720 was the last major naval battle in the Great Northern War that took place in Åland, in the Ledsund strait between the island communities of Föglö and Lemland. The battle marked the end of Russian and Swedish offensive naval operations in Baltic waters. The Russian fleet conducted one more raid on the Swedish coast in spring 1721, whereupon the Treaty of Nystad was signed, ending the war.

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