Carl Pontus Gahn


Carl Pontus Gahn 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. He was ennobled in 1809, taking the title Gahn af Colquhoun in acknowledgement of his Scottish ancestry. He was promoted to the rank of Major General in 1814 and became president of the Martial Court of Appeals in 1824.