Anjala conspiracy

Colonel Johan Henrik Hästesko [sv] (1741–1790) was a Finnish soldier and an officer of the Swedish Army. He took part in the Anjala conspiracy and was executed for that (only one to actually suffer such fate).

The Anjala conspiracy (Swedish: Anjalaförbundet, Finnish: Anjalan liitto) of 1788 was a scheme by disgruntled Swedish officers to end Gustav III's Russian War of 1788–1790. Declaring Finland an independent state was not a part of the original plot, but one of the conspirators Johan Anders Jägerhorn, who handed the note to Empress Catherine the Great, made such claims in Saint Petersburg.[1]

  1. ^ I fält för Gustaf III, G. H. Jägerhorn. Atlantis, 2004. Sid 14–26.