Villmanstrand > Lappeenranta Southern Finland Finland
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The battle of Villmanstrand is fought in Karelia during the Russo-Swedish War on August 23, 1741 (September 3, NS), when twenty thousand Russian forces, under the command of General Peter von Lacy, advance from Vyborg (Swedish: Viborg, Finnish: Viipuri) to assault Villmanstrand (Finnish: Lappeenranta).
Fighting begins around two PM, but the Swedes withdraw at five PM before Swedish baron and Lieutenant General Henrik Magnus von Buddenbrock, less than ten kilometers away, can come to the assistance of General Wrangel.
Swedish casualties amount to two thousand men killed or wounded and one thousand captured, among them Wrangel, who had lost his right arm during the battle.
Russia loses twenty-four hundred men.
The threat to the Russian capital thus relieved, Lacy does not continue his movement after the battle.