Anjala League

Anjala League

▪ Finnish-Swedish conspiracy
      (1788–89), a conspiracy of Swedish and Finnish army officers that undermined the Swedish war effort in the Russo-Swedish War of 1788–90. Shortly after the outbreak of war, 113 officers in the Finnish town of Anjala dispatched a letter to Empress Catherine II the Great of Russia calling for peace on the basis of the pre-1743 status quo—one favourable to Sweden. Although this condition made Catherine's acceptance unlikely, it did not lessen the letter's treasonable nature. In another document the officers demanded the abdication of the king. When King Gustav III of Sweden learned of these documents, he called upon the officers to repudiate it in return for a full pardon. The officers, however, answered that the war was unjust and therefore Swedes could not be inspired to fight to victory; they denied that their act had been treasonable, noting that they would consider a refusal by Catherine to negotiate as a personal attack on them. Unmoved by this explanation, Gustav III, after first dealing successfully with an attack in the west by Denmark, punished the Anjala group in 1789: one officer was executed, and many were imprisoned.

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