I don't know if it was deliberately avoided but I think it is relevant to talk about the 43 500 strong force stationed in Denmark as a planned Franco-Danish invasion of Sweden in 1807-1808 including La Romana's 15 000 men division made up of spanish soldiers under the General Marquis de La Romana. When news reached this latter about the overthrowing of Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, he decided to leave Denmark and british royal navy gave assistance in shipping spanish troops back to Santander where they fought against french forces.
1801 was not a British victory. Their pre-battle demand were not met. There was only a negotiated ceasefire. The Danish-Norwegian navy’s casualties were mainly in untrained volunteers, because there had been no time to prepare and assemble the regular and very competent navy personnel. In material terms the Danish losses were negligible since no active ships were engaged - the battle was fought with old hulks towed out. In contrast the British navy lost regular sailors and some of their best shipy
In short yes. It was part of the 1848 revolutions which saw the German population of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg rebel. Prussia and other German states supported the rebels but the other great powers supported Denmark. It was a complicated time that saw Prussia unwilling to fully commit to a wider European war over the issue.
Had the other major european powers not put pressure on Prussia to pull out their troops supporting the Schleswig-Holstein rebels, I feel absolutely sure we would have lost the 1848-1851 first Schleswig war. Our "victory" was really more of a political and strategic stalemate which ended in a status quo, with the pre war situation basically continued.
A lot of documentaries focus on a few select topics, so I genuinely appreciate the variation in your videos. Oh, will you be doing a video on Sweden, perhaps? They have quite a position during the period.
Thanks, I definitely try to vary the topics I cover. Sweden is a country that I am already working a bit on researching, the struggle over who became King is very interesting to me.
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Denmark has the worst luck in major European conflicts
I don't know about worst, but they are definitely up there lol!
Poland and the Balkans definitely get it worse every times 😂
And Prussia the luckiest.
The last statement is not true.
The 1864 war was the 2nd Slesvig war.
There was a 1st Slesvig war - in 1848.
”So the british went to copenhagen, and blew some stuff up”
Large parts of the city indeed..
And stole the fleet
Gunboats are underrated
I don't know if it was deliberately avoided but I think it is relevant to talk about the 43 500 strong force stationed in Denmark as a planned Franco-Danish invasion of Sweden in 1807-1808 including La Romana's 15 000 men division made up of spanish soldiers under the General Marquis de La Romana. When news reached this latter about the overthrowing of Ferdinand VII by Napoleon, he decided to leave Denmark and british royal navy gave assistance in shipping spanish troops back to Santander where they fought against french forces.
Lego land before Lego was made? Epic
i love lego
10:12 war 1849-51 and 1864
1801 was not a British victory. Their pre-battle demand were not met. There was only a negotiated ceasefire. The Danish-Norwegian navy’s casualties were mainly in untrained volunteers, because there had been no time to prepare and assemble the regular and very competent navy personnel. In material terms the Danish losses were negligible since no active ships were engaged - the battle was fought with old hulks towed out. In contrast the British navy lost regular sailors and some of their best shipy
Danes were drawn into war in 1848.. 1st Schleswig war..
Denmark fought the first Schleswig war in the 1840’s against Prussia and won???
In short yes. It was part of the 1848 revolutions which saw the German population of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg rebel. Prussia and other German states supported the rebels but the other great powers supported Denmark. It was a complicated time that saw Prussia unwilling to fully commit to a wider European war over the issue.
Had the other major european powers not put pressure on Prussia to pull out their troops supporting the Schleswig-Holstein rebels, I feel absolutely sure we would have lost the 1848-1851 first Schleswig war.
Our "victory" was really more of a political and strategic stalemate which ended in a status quo, with the pre war situation basically continued.
A lot of documentaries focus on a few select topics, so I genuinely appreciate the variation in your videos.
Oh, will you be doing a video on Sweden, perhaps? They have quite a position during the period.
Thanks, I definitely try to vary the topics I cover. Sweden is a country that I am already working a bit on researching, the struggle over who became King is very interesting to me.
0:07 nice jawline
Bro has Habsburg vibe 🤟🏻