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During the 16th to 18th centuries, Danish military involvement was also directed against Russia and other Eastern European nations in the series of Northern Wars and subsequent campaigns. Denmark was brought into the Napoleonic Wars on the French side when attacked by Britain at the Battles of Copenhagen in 1801 and 1807. The eventual defeat of ...
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.
A medieval ship flag captured from a Danish ship by forces from Lübeck: Kalmar Union flag. Kalmar Union flag. The flag of Scania: The flag of Halland. The flag of Blekinge. The flag of Blekinge. The flag of Denmark-Gdańsk: The flag of Denmark-Norway [38] Former flag of Kristiansand, Denmark-Norway. 1814-1851: Flag of Schleswig-Holstein ...
The flag of Denmark falling from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse on 15 June, 1219. Painted by C.A Lorentzen , 1809. In 1202, Valdemar II became king and launched various " crusades " to claim territories, notably modern Estonia .
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 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 ...
The Danish flag from the front page of Christiern Pedersen's version of Saxo Grammaticus's Gesta Danorum, 1514 (see here for a larger version) There is a record suggesting that the Danish Army had a "chief banner" (hoffuitbanner) in the early 16th century.
His seal combined the coats of arms of Norway (center, as an inescutcheon upon a cross over all), Denmark (in dexter chief), Sweden (the Folkung lion, in dexter base) and Pomerania (a griffin, in sinister base), and in addition the Three Crowns symbol in sinister chief; the latter heraldic design predates the Kalmar Union, and is now mostly ...