✦ History

Part of Crimean War

Battle of Bomarsund

August 8–16, 1854 · Battle of Bomarsund

Result Anglo–French victory

British ships and French troops took the new Russian fortress of Bomarsund in the Åland Islands.

On the map Contemporaries

Allies

Russia

United Kingdom
France
Russian Empire
Charles Napier military commander Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
3,000
Casualties
53
Captured
2,000

Units

French Baltic expeditionary corps (1854) British Baltic Fleet (1854–1855)