Jan Jakon Ankarstrom was a Swedish soldier. He was born about 1762 and died in 1792. He was at first a page in the Swedish court, afterwards an officer in the royal body-guards. He was a strenuous opponent of the sovereign's measures to restrict the privileges of the nobility, and joined Counts Horn and Ribbing and others in a plot to assassinate Gustavus III. Jan Ankarstrom carried out the assassination on the 15th of March, 1792. Jan Ankarstrom was tried, tortured, and executed in the April, dying boasting of his deed. Research Jan Ankarstrom
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