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Danish White Ensign flag. Unofficial Flag of the Danish West Indies. Flag of the Danish West Indies. The flag of the West India-Guinea Company. St. Thomas - Panoramic view of Charlotte Amalie. Fort Christiansvaern, Company Street vicinity, Christiansted, St. Croix. Last Danish Parade at Saint Croix. Raising the American flag in the Danish West ...
The Danish coat of arms in the Gelre Armorial, 14th century. This is the oldest coloured image of the Dannebrog. The crest was used by Danish monarchs from the 13th century until c. 1420. [1] The flag is not part of the crest. The oldest known depiction of the insignia dates from a seal used by King Canute VI c. 1194.
Danish soldiers return to Copenhagen after the Battle of Fredericia (1849), a Danish victory against German insurgents in Holstein and Schleswig in the First Schleswig War (1894 painting by Otto Bache) Cigarette card of 1890, depicting the royal standard of the Danish West Indies. Used as a maritime flag since the 16th century, the Dannebrog ...
1511 – 9 August A Danish fleet forces the Lübeck fleet to fall back at Bornholm, and the rest of the war they remain in port; 1512 – April Denmark concludes peace with Sweden and Lübeck; 1517 – A rebellion in Sweden flares up again. In August a Danish army is deployed at Stockholm, but is defeated at Vedla
Today modern Danish heraldry has abandoned the overly complex arms of previous periods and has returned to a more simple style closer to the medieval. Apart from those coats of arms assumed by people with an interest in heraldry, many modern Danish coats of arms are composed for recipients of the grand cross of the Order of the Dannebrog who ...
The Danish king's realm still consisted of the islands, the northern half of the Jutland peninsula, and the Duchy of Schleswig in real union with the Duchy of Holstein. Danish Infantry regiment in a fight with regiment "Martini". Contemporary illustration of the 1864 Second Schleswig War.
Following Operation Safari, Danish uniforms were appropriated by the German army. [28] The Danish Army was relegated to the Danish Brigade in Sweden, where the received equipment from the British and Swedish. [28] [25] This meant that the Danes would wear the British Battledress as the combat uniform, which was called the M/44.
The Royal Danish Army (Danish: Hæren; Faroese: Herurin; Greenlandic: Sakkutuut) is the land-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces, together with the Danish Home Guard. For the last decade, the Royal Danish Army has undergone a massive transformation of structures, equipment and training methods, abandoning its traditional role of anti ...