After retreating to Svensksund, Gustav decides to…
July 1790 CE
The Swedish coastal fleet is reinforced by forty ships under Lieutenant-Colonel Carl Olof Cronstedt after the escape from Vyborg.
Gustav decides to lead the fight personally and divides his forces into four brigades under lieutenant-colonels Carl Olof Cronstedt, Claes Hjelmstjerna, Victor von Stedingk, and Jakob Törning.
Von Stedingk is to lead the center consisting of two hemmema (Styrbjörn and Starkotter) and two udema (Torborg and Ingeborg) archipelago frigates, the brig Alexander, fifteen galleys, two half-galleys, and eleven cannon or mortar longboats.
Törning has the command of the right wing consisting of thirty-nine gun sloops and twenty-two gun yawls while Hjelmstierna's left wing has thirty gun sloops and fourteen gun yawls supported by twelve gun sloops and yawls from Cronstedt's brigade.
The rest of Cronstedt's brigade, consisting of the turuma Norden, one galley and thirty-six gun sloops and yawls, is to remain in reserve and guard against a possible Russian flanking maneuver.
Artillery batteries are constructed on the skerries of Kråkskär (between the center and right wings) and Sandskär (between the center and left wings).
The preparations are completed on July 8.
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