>--- Peter Metcalfe <metcalph_at_pRPm49ESS-KBYgqfd5pJWhTJZ0etImya9K8Szgx0MhPbdZhoN9uX_PjuCMEa2Uj1b8RWtU06hEkzFZIxy0-dQ0Y.yahoo.invalid>
>wrote:
>
> > At 12:42 a.m. 12/02/2007, you wrote:
> > >Heh? Then why didn't anyone attack you? Or you
> > could have gone after Denmark.
> >
> > The Brits already have done over Copenhagen during
> > the Napoleanic Wars.
>
>I have no idea what happened on land, but the sea
>battle against a combined Danish and Norwegian fleet
>was one of Nelson's victories: the one where he
>ignored the signal telling him to retreat, claiming
>that he couldn't see it. While holding a telescope to
>his blind eye. I do like Nelson's attitude to
>authority :)
There was a second action in 1807 in which the British bombarded Copenhagen for four days until the Danes would hand over their fleet. And they didn't even bother to declare war.
>Though I don't quite see why this victory stopped
>anyone invading Denmark in the '14-'18? I mean, we
>didn't keep it, and they'd had over a hundred years to
>rebuild the damage.
It was neutral and the only thing of interest was a statue of a mermaid.
--Peter Metcalfe
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