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In September 1807, the Royal Navy bombarded Copenhagen, seizing the Danish fleet and assured use of the sea lanes in the North Sea and Baltic Sea for the British merchant fleet. A consequence of the attack was that Denmark did join the Continental System and the war on the side of France, but without a fleet it had little to offer.
- 15 August – 7 September 1807
- British victory, Danish navy surrendered to the United Kingdom
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The force reached Denmark in early August 1807 and demanded that the Danes allow their fleet to be taken into British control. The Danes refused, and hostilities began. British troops under Wellesley (later the Duke of Wellington) landed near Copenhagen and surrounded the city.
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The effect of the French and British regulations was to leave the neutrals with the prospect of being taken as prizes at sea by the British or in port by the French. On December 22, 1807, the United States imposed the Embargo Act on belligerents adopting measures against neutral shipping. The decision favoured France and damaged British ...
Sep 9, 2007 · The British bombed the Danish capital for a second time, on September 2nd, 1807. The shelling of Copenhagen, September 1807 The British had shelled the Danish capital before, in 1801, but the second onslaught was even more devastating.
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 Napoleon led to the break-up of the Denmark-Norway union. The next major combats were over control of Schleswig, in the First and Second Schleswig Wars. The result hereof being that ...
When fighting broke out again in May 1803, the British government set about the laborious diplomatic task of building a new coalition of the enemies of France. Gradually the obvious candidates – Austria and Russia – were enlisted, subsidies promised, and campaigns and force contributions planned. The Baltic was involved in two ways.
