Carl Gustaf Armfeldt

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Carl Gustaf Armfeldt

Friherre Carl Gustaf Armfeldt (born in Ingria
Ingria

Ingria is a historical region within Russia, comprising the southern bank of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipus in the west, and Lake Ladoga and the western bank of the Volkhov river in the east....
November 9, 1666, died October 24, 1736 in Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
), was a Swedish officer who took part in the Great Northern War
Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
.

He was born in Ingria
Ingria

Ingria is a historical region within Russia, comprising the southern bank of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipus in the west, and Lake Ladoga and the western bank of the Volkhov river in the east....
to lieutenant colonel Gustaf Armfelt and Anna Elisabet Brakel. Like other members of his family Armfelt devoted himself to war and at seventeen years' age joined Nylands kavalleri as a cadet
Cadet

A cadet may mean a future officer in the military, a junior branch of an important family, or simply a person who is a junior trainee....
. In 1685 he left this position and left for France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
where he joined prince Ferdinand of Fürstenburg's regiment as a mere footsoldier.

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Friherre Carl Gustaf Armfeldt (born in Ingria
Ingria

Ingria is a historical region within Russia, comprising the southern bank of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipus in the west, and Lake Ladoga and the western bank of the Volkhov river in the east....
November 9, 1666, died October 24, 1736 in Finland
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
), was a Swedish officer who took part in the Great Northern War
Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
.

He was born in Ingria
Ingria

Ingria is a historical region within Russia, comprising the southern bank of the river Neva, between the Gulf of Finland, the Narva River, Lake Peipus in the west, and Lake Ladoga and the western bank of the Volkhov river in the east....
to lieutenant colonel Gustaf Armfelt and Anna Elisabet Brakel. Like other members of his family Armfelt devoted himself to war and at seventeen years' age joined Nylands kavalleri as a cadet
Cadet

A cadet may mean a future officer in the military, a junior branch of an important family, or simply a person who is a junior trainee....
. In 1685 he left this position and left for France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
where he joined prince Ferdinand of Fürstenburg's regiment as a mere footsoldier. He campaigned in France for twelve years and returned to Sweden as a captain. Due to his military experience he was employed in the Finnish army as a generaladjutant in 1701 and stayed with this army for most of the Great Northern War
Great Northern War

The Great Northern War was a war in which the so-called Northern Alliance composed of Russia, Denmark-Norway, Polish?Lithuanian Commonwealth and Saxony engaged Sweden to challenge them for the supremacy in the Baltic Sea....
. He was named commander of the Finnish army in 1713.

During the long war he distinguished himself in several occasions, especially during the defense of Helsingfors
Helsinki

Helsinki is the Capital and largest List of cities and towns in Finland of Finland. It is in the southern part of Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, by the Baltic Sea....
in 1713, but met an overwhelming Russian force and was defeated at the battle of Storkyro
Battle of Storkyro

The battle of Storkyro was fought on February 19, 1714 / March 2, 1714 near the village of Napo in Storkyro parish , Ostrobothnia , Swedish Empire between a Sweden and a Russian army, as part of the Great Northern War....
in 1714.

In 1717 Armfeldt was promoted to lieutenant general and commanded the Swedish force which on the orders of Charles XII of Sweden
Charles XII of Sweden

Charles XII was the Monarch of Sweden from 1697 to 1718.Charles was the only surviving son of King Charles XI of Sweden and Ulrike Eleonora of Denmark, and he assumed the crown at the age of fifteen, at the death of his father....
was sent into Norway
Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a constitutional monarchy in Northern Europe that occupies the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula....
to take Trondheim
Trondheim

is a city and Municipalities of Norway in S?r-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. The city of Trondheim was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838 ....
. Poorly equipped, Armfelt pulled out after the king fell at Fredrikshald
Fredrikshald

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. On New Year's Eve
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1718 he arrived at Norwegian Tydal
Tydal

Tydal is a Municipalities of Norway in S?r-Tr?ndelag Counties of Norway, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of ?s....
, with 80 kilometers to the closest Swedish village in Jämtland
Jämtland

, or 'Jamtland' , is a historical Provinces of Sweden or landskap in the center of Sweden in northern Europe. It borders to H?rjedalen and Medelpad in the south, ?ngermanland in the east, Lapland, Sweden in the north and Tr?ndelag and Norway in the west....
. When the troops had marched 10 kilometers from Tydalen, a severe blizzard
Blizzard

A blizzard is a severe winter storm condition characterized by low temperatures, strong winds, and heavy blowing snow. Blizzards are formed when a high pressure area, also known as a ridge, interacts with a low pressure area; this results in the advection of air from the high pressure zone into the low pressure area....
struck from the northwest. The bitter cold killed the pathfinder
Pathfinder

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on the very first day, and the army scatted blindly in the mountains (Sylan
Sylan

Sylan, Sylane or Sylene , Sylarna , Bealjehkh is a mountain range on the border between Norway and Sweden, in the counties S?r-Tr?ndelag and J?mtland....
mountain range). On the following nights hundreds more perished. Of the over 5,000 men who left Tydalen, only 870 were found alive on arrival at Duved, mostly hardened Finnish veteran
Veteran

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s.

In 1719 Armfelt was named governor of Viborg county
Viborg and Nyslott County

The County of Viborg and Nyslott was a Counties of Sweden of the Swedish Empire from 1634 to 1721. Prior to 1658 it was known as the County of Karelia ....
but never took office, as the county was under Russian control and was ceded to Russia after the treaty of Nystad
Treaty of Nystad

The Treaty of Nystad was signed in 1721 in the then Swedish town of Uusikaupunki . It ended the Great Northern War, in which Russian Empire received the territories of Duchy of Estonia , Duchy of Livonia and Duchy of Ingria, as well as much of Finnish Karelia and number of islands in Baltic sea from Swedish Empire and Tsar Peter I of Russia...
. He was named general of infantry in 1735, and according to the Pernå parish records (cited by Hornborg, 1952, died at Liljendal in Finland October 24, 1736, and was interred at Isnäs on 3 December 1736.

He was married in 1700 to Lovisa Aminoff.

Source

Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon, 1906; *"Karolinen Armfelt och kampen om Finland under Stora nordiska kriget", Eirik Hornborg 1952