List of military operations on ice (original) (raw)

Battles and other military operations that took place on lake or sea ice include: * about 530 – Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern, recorded in Norse sagas and referred to in the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf * 1241 - Battle of Mohi on the Sajo River * 1242 – Battle on the Ice on Lake Peipus * 1270 – Battle of Karuse on the frozen Baltic Sea between the Island of Muhu and the mainland * 1658 – March Across the Belts, Charles X Gustav's march over the Little Belt and the Great Belt during the Second Northern War * 1795 – Capture of the Dutch fleet at Den Helder: The French First Republic's cavalry captured the fleet of the Dutch Republic that was stuck in ice, frozen at anchor. * 1809 – Finnish War * Barclay de Tolly's advance from Vaasa to Uumaja in Sweden, see Battle of Ratan and Sävar