<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Northern_War" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Great Northern War">Great Northern War</a>: After losing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Helsinki_(1713)" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Helsinki (1713)">Battle of Helsinki</a> to the Russians, the Swedish and Finnish troops burn the entire city, so that it would not remain intact in the hands of the Russians.<sup about="#mwt68" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"}}' id="cite_ref-8" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_11#cite_note-8" id="mwQQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 8;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQg">[8]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-8"><cite about="#mwt65" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source" id="CITEREFAalto2015">Aalto, Seppo (2015). <i id="mwBUE">Kruununkaupunki – Vironniemen Helsinki 1640–1721</i> (in Finnish). Helsinki: <a href="./Finnish_Literature_Society" id="mwBUI" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Finnish Literature Society">Finnish Literature Society</a>. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwBUM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwBUQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-952-222-675-4" id="mwBUU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-952-222-675-4"><bdi id="mwBUY">978-952-222-675-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt65" class="Z3988" id="mwBUc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Kruununkaupunki+%E2%80%93+Vironniemen+Helsinki+1640%E2%80%931721&amp;rft.place=Helsinki&amp;rft.pub=Finnish+Literature+Society&amp;rft.date=2015&amp;rft.isbn=978-952-222-675-4&amp;rft.aulast=Aalto&amp;rft.aufirst=Seppo&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMay+11"></span><link about="#mwt65" href="./Category:CS1_Finnish-language_sources_(fi)" id="mwBUg" rel="mw:PageProp/Category"/></span>