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In the mid-18th Century, on a group of seven islands in the Gulf of Finland south of Helsinki, the Swedish government built a series of forts to protect Finland, which was then under Swedish rule, from the Navy of Russia. A Swedish aristocrat and artilleryman named Augustin Ehrensvard designed the fortress on the I...
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In 1748, using a design by Augustin Ehrensvärd, the Swedish government began construction of the Suomenlinna Sea Fortess on seven islands in the Gulf of Finland south of Helsinki. At the time, Finland was under Swedish rule and Helsinki was just a tiny seaside hamlet. The Swedes occupied the fortification, which t...
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