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Saturday 31 August 2019

Commanding officer of captured Swedish frigate Venus condemned to the death penalty according to the Dutch newspaper Ommelander Courant dated 20 September 1791

According to letter dated Stockholm 2 September was major Magnus Hansson condemned by the court-martial to the death while he surrendered as commanding officer of the frigate Venus on 1 June 1789 off the Norwegian coast to the Russians.