Lieutenant Colonel Otto Henrik Von Fieandt
By the time of the Russo-Swedish War of 1788 he was
captain of a regiment, and participated in the Anjala
conspiracy, for which he was pardoned.[2] He came to fame in
the Finnish War, in which he held the rank of lieutenant colonel. He is the titular
character of the tenth poem comprising The Tales of Ensign
Stål. Runeberg paints him as an eccentric figure, stating that
he spoke Finnish to his men, that he used a whip instead of a sword,
and that he went into battle smoking a pipe. A monument known as the
"Stones of Otto von Fieandt" stands in Karstula in commemoration of the
Battle of Karstula, in which his Swedish forces were forced to
retreat.
He was the great-great-grandson of Simon Affleck, by his legitimate
line, which makes him a distant half-second cousin, six times
removed.
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