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Admiral Claes Uggla, was surrounded and his flagship The Sword (Svärdet) battered in a drawn-out artillery duel, then set ablaze by a fire ship. Uggla drowned while escaping the burning ship, and with the loss of a second supreme commander, the rest of the Swedish fleet fled in disorder.

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On This Day In History: Dramatic Battle Of Öland – On June 1, 1676

MessageToEagle.com | June 1, 2016

MessageToEagle.com – On June 1, 1676, dramatic naval Battle of Öland was fought between Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea and an allied Danish-Dutch fleet. Just as the battle

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