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The Battle of France (French: bataille de France; 10 May – 25 June 1940), also known as the Western Campaign (German: Westfeldzug), the French Campaign (Frankreichfeldzug, campagne de France) and the Fall of France, during the Second World War was the German invasion of the Low Countries (Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) and France.
Battle of Silda (1810) Battle of Anholt (1811) Battle of Grimstad Bay (1811) Battle of Tromsø (1812) Battle of Lyngør (1812) Dano-Swedish War (1808–1809) Battle of Lier (1808) Battle of Toverud (1808) Battle of Rødenes (1808) Battle of Trangen (1808) Battle of Furuholm (1808) Battle of Mobekk (1808) Battle of Prestebakke (1808) Battle of ...
Dissolution of Denmark-Norway; Dano-Swedish War (1808–09) (1808–1809) Denmark–Norway France Sweden United Kingdom: Stalemate. Return to Status quo ante bellum; Jørgen Jørgensen's Revolution (1809) Denmark-Norway United Kingdom: Iceland: Victory. Imprisonment of Jørgen Jørgensen; Dano-Swedish War (1813–1814) (1813-1814) Denmark ...
10 June: Norway surrendered to German forces and Italy joined the war by declaring war on France and Great Britain. 12 June: The 51st Highland Division surrendered to German forces due to being surrounded.
Hostilities resume later in 1807 with the commencement of the Peninsular War and expand in 1809 with the formation of a Fifth Coalition against France; Gunboat War (1807–1814) Location: Danish–Norwegian waters Denmark–Norway. Co-belligerent: Russian Empire (1808–09) Supported by: French Empire [12] United Kingdom. Co-belligerent: Sweden ...
A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-61826-7. Williamson, Gordon (2003). German Destroyers 1939–45. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-84176-504-4. Ziemke, Earl F. (1959). The German Northern Theater of Operations 1940–1945. US Department of the Army Pamphlet.
Rollo (Norman: Rou, Rolloun; Old Norse: Hrólfr; French: Rollon; died 933), also known with his epithet, Rollo "the Walker", [4] was a Viking who, as Count of Rouen, became the first ruler of Normandy, a region in today's northern France.
Germany occupied Norway between 1940 and 1945 during the Second World War, after which Norway joined NATO and underwent a period of reconstruction under public planning. Oil was discovered in 1969 and by 1995 Norway was the world's second-largest exporter.