List of military operations on ice
Battles and other military operations that took place on lake or sea ice include:
- about 530 – Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern, recorded in Norse sagas and referred to in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf
- 1242 – Battle on the Ice on Lake Peipus
- 1270 – Battle of Karuse on the frozen Baltic Sea between the Island of Muhu and the mainland
- 1658 – March Across the Belts, Charles X Gustav's march over the Little Belt and the Great Belt during the Second Northern War[1]
- 1809 – Finnish War
- Barclay de Tolly's advance from Vaasa to Uumaja in Sweden, see Battle of Ratan and Sävar[1]
- Bagration's and Kulnev's attack from the Åland Islands to Grisslehamn in Sweden[1]
- 1940 – Battle of Vyborg Bay (1940) in the Winter War
- 1941-44 - Road of Life, an ice road over Lake Ladoga that supplied the besieged Leningrad during the winter months (barges kept the supply line open in warmer times), during WWII.
- 1942 – Battle of Suursaari in the Continuation War[2]
References
- 1 2 3 Jorma Ojaharju (1998). "Merenkurkun merkillisyyksiä". Hiidenkivi – Suomalainen kulttuurilehti (4). Retrieved 2010-07-11.
- ↑ Jari Aromaa. "CONTINUATION WAR, YEAR 1942". Retrieved 2010-07-11.
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