The combined British and French fleet return…
August 1854 CE
The outnumbered Russian Baltic Fleet confines its movements to the areas around its fortifications.
At the same time, the British and French commanders Sir Charles Napier and Alexandre Ferdinand Parseval-Deschenes—although they lead the largest fleet assembled since the Napoleonic Wars—consider the Sveaborg fortress too well-defended to engage.
Thus, shelling of the Russian batteries will be limited to two attempts in 1854 and 1855, and initially, the attacking fleets will limit their actions to blockading Russian trade in the Gulf of Finland.
Naval attacks on other ports, such as the ones in the island of Hogland in the Gulf of Finland, will proved more successful.
Additionally, allies conduct raids on less fortified sections of the Finnish coast.
These battles are known in Finland as the Åland War.
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