Pomeranian War

Map of Pomerania

Date	13 September 1757 – 22 May 1762 (4 years, 8 months, 1 week and 2 days)
Location	Swedish Pomerania, Prussian Pomerania, Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Result	Military stalemate and Prussian diplomatic victory Status quo ante bellum

Belligerents

Sweden

Russia

Prussia

Commanders and leaders

Augustin Ehrensvärd

Mattias Alexander von Ungern-Sternberg ()

Gustaf Fredrik von Rosen ()

Pyotr Rumyantsev

Ivan Ivanovich Möller-Sakomelsky

Prussia Heinrich von Manteuffel (POW)

Wilhelm Sebastian von Belling

Carl Heinrich von Wedel

Strength

6,200+ in battle
28 ships

6,000+ in battle
13 ships

Casualties and losses

3,473

2,590
9 ships

The Pomeranian War was a theatre of the Seven Years' War. The term is used to describe the fighting between Sweden and Prussia between 1757 and 1762 in Swedish Pomerania, Prussian Pomerania, northern Brandenburg and eastern Mecklenburg-Schwerin.

The war was characterized by a back-and-forth movement of the Swedish and Prussian armies, neither of whom would score a decisive victory. It started when Swedish forces advanced into Prussian territory in 1757, but were repelled and blockaded at Stralsund until their relief by a Russian force in 1758. In the course of the following, renewed Swedish incursion into Prussian territory, the small Prussian fleet was destroyed and areas as far south as Neuruppin were occupied, yet the campaign was aborted in late 1759 when the undersupplied Swedish forces succeeded neither in taking the major Prussian fortress of Stettin (now Szczecin) nor in combining with their Russian allies.

A Prussian counter-attack of Swedish Pomerania in January 1760 was repelled, and throughout the year Swedish forces again advanced into Prussian territory as far south as Prenzlau before again withdrawing to Swedish Pomerania in the winter. Another Swedish campaign into Prussia started in the summer of 1761, but was soon aborted due to shortage of supplies and equipment. The final encounters of the war took place in the winter of 1761/62 near Malchin and Neukalen in Mecklenburg, just across the Swedish Pomeranian border, before the parties agreed on the Truce of Ribnitz on 7 April 1762. When on 5 May a Russo-Prussian alliance eliminated Swedish hopes for future Russian assistance, and instead posed the threat of a Russian intervention on the Prussian side, Sweden was forced to make peace.

...
Wikipedia