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The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Napoleonic Wars.
Assault on Copenhagen (1659), a major battle during the Second Northern War, taking place during the siege of Copenhagen by the Swedish army. Battle of Copenhagen (1801), a naval battle between a British fleet and the Dano-Norwegian Navy; Battle of Copenhagen (1807), a British bombardment of Copenhagen to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet
Siege of Copenhagen may refer to: Siege of Copenhagen (1368) Siege of Copenhagen (1658) Battle of Copenhagen (1807), in which Copenhagen was also besieged; See also
In the bombardment of 1807, the city itself was bombarded by the British Army to force the capitulation. Although the writer in the Aurora in 1808, [ 2 ] and Emmons in 1830, [ 4 ] were clear enough in referring to the 1807 incident, it is less clear which was meant by Lalor and Winsor, while the modern uses by Azar Gat are better understood as ...
Alacrity was commissioned in February 1807 under Commander William Croft for the Baltic Station. [2] On 22 August Alacrity and Sybille captured the Danish merchant vessel Elizabeth. [3] She was then at the siege of Copenhagen. In September, Commander Nisbit Palmer assumed command, [2] replacing Croft, who received promotion to post-captain in ...
The gift was sent on a ship in 1807 and intended for Copenhagen, Denmark. It never arrived. Instead, the unopened package ended up in an archive in London, the U.K.’s National Archives said in a ...
When a British expeditionary force bombarded Copenhagen in 1807 in order to take control of the Danish navy, thus denying it to nascent French plans to invade Britain, the city suffered great damage and hundreds of people were killed. The main reason for the extensive devastation was that Copenhagen relied on an old defence line rendered ...
A fire ripped through Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, one of the Danish capital's best-known buildings, on Tuesday, engulfing its spire which collapsed in a scene reminiscent of the 2019 blaze at ...