swartholme

Updated: May 15, 2025

The Russians, however, had been taught the lesson that it would be better for them in future not to make aggressions on their neighbours, or to venture hastily into war. Captains Yelverton and Vansittart had already shown them how little they could rely on their boasted fortifications, by destroying all between Viborg and Helsingfors, Fredericksham, Kotka, and Swartholme.

William Henry Giles Kingston - Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign