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Carl Pontus Gahn

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Swedish military officer
Major general
Carl Pontus Gahn
Birth nameCarl Pontus Gahn
Born(1759-03-01)1 March 1759
Falun, Sweden
Died9 May 1825(1825-05-09) (aged 66)
Stockholm, Sweden
AllegianceSweden Sweden
Service / branchSwedish Army
RankMajor general
Battles / wars
Other workPresident of the Court-Martial of Appeal

Carl Pontus Gahn (1 March 1759 – 9 May 1825) was a Swedish military officer who participated in the Russo-Swedish War in Finland in 1788–1789, the Finnish War campaign in Norway in 1808 and the unsuccessful invasion of Norway at Eidskog in 1814. He was ennobled in 1809, taking the title Gahn af Colquhoun in acknowledgement of his Scottish ancestry (Gahn was itself a contraction via Cahun of the family name of Colquhoun). He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1814 and became president of the Court-Martial of Appeal in 1824.

References

  1. ^ "Gahn".
  2. "Scots in Sweden - Sixteenth Century".


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