Honorific Prefix: | Major general |
Carl Pontus Gahn | |
Birth Name: | Carl Pontus Gahn |
Birth Date: | 1 March 1759 |
Birth Place: | Falun, Sweden |
Death Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Allegiance: | Sweden |
Branch: | Swedish Army |
Rank: | Major general |
Battles: | |
Laterwork: | President 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.[1] 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).[2] He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1814 and became president of the Court-Martial of Appeal in 1824.[1]