Johan Bergenstråhle


Johan Bergenstråhle was a Swedish military officer who participated in Russo-Swedish War, and the Finnish War. In June 1808 he was sent as a colonel of the Swedish Army, with 1,000 men and four cannon to Vasa in order to retake the city from the Russians. The expedition failed; Bergenstråhle was wounded and captured on June 25.

Military career

Bergenstråhle was married on October 12, 1785 to Carolina Margareta von Cristiersson, who bore him seven children. He remarried on 23 September 1800, taking Ulrika Gustava Riddersvärd to be his wife: she bore him ten children.