1563 – 31 July Ambition and a fight over the right to each other's national weapons, war breaks out between Denmark and Sweden; 1563 – 15 September A Danish army moves into Sweden and occupies Älvsborg; 1564 – 30 May A Danish fleet under the command of Herluf Trolle, defeats a Swedish fleet between Öland and Gotland; 1565 – 9 October The war's only big battle stands at Axtorna. << Wessex and the Danes - The Danes in Dark Ages Britain - Alfred the Great and the Danes >> Gold ring of Aethelwulf Let us turn then to an examination of the new invaders, Northmen is the term applied inclusively to the whole group which, at a later stage, separates into two groups of Danes and Norsemen. The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 5 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.The incident led to the outbreak of the Anglo-Russian War of 1807, which ended with the Treaty of Örebro in 1812. The small gunboat had advantages: if it only carried a single cannon, the boat could manoeuvre in shallow or restricted areas – such as rivers or lakes – where larger ships could sail only with difficulty. Hos…

As such boats were cheap and quick to build, naval forces favoured swarm tactics: while a single hit from a All navies of the sailing era kept a number of gunboats on hand. This came as a basis of Denmark-Norway's policy of armed neutrality during the latter stages of the French Revolutionary Wars, where Denmark used its naval forces to protect trade flowing within, into and out of the Danish-Norwegian waters. When war with Japan broke out, many of these vessels withdrew to the Indian Ocean. The The last major fight between Danish and British warships took place on 6 July 1812 during the As a result of the Swedish invasion of Holstein in 1814 during the With crews of 10 to 20 personnel, riverine tanks displaced 26 to 48 tons, had armour 4–14 mm thick, and were 23 to 25 metres long. German-Danish War, (1864), the second of two conflicts over the settlement of the Schleswig-Holstein question, a complex of problems arising from the relationship of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein to Denmark, to each other, and to the German Confederation. This was overcome by using gunboats to convoy the merchant vessels, as the gunboats were much more maneuverable in the shallow coastal waters, and restricting the cargo vessels to those which could pass inside of Møn.

The monks of Ely, writing of the battle in their Liber Eliensis, notes that Byrhtnoth “was neither shaken by the small number of his men, nor fearful of the multitude of the enemy”. Larger seagoing ships which would have to go outside, i.e. Involved in it were a disputed The size of his force is not known, but it is recorded that he was heavily outnumbered by the Danes who were reckoned to have between 2000 and 4000 men. These could be classified, from the smallest to the largest, into In the United States Navy, these boats had the In the circumstances of World War I (1914–1918), however, the Royal Navy re-equipped with small 625-long-ton (635 t), shallow-draught gunboats (12 ships of the More and larger gunboats were built in the late 1930s for the Far East. These actions, together with a good form of coastal signalling, resulted in a steady supply of grain to the Danish capital.On 13 April 1810, four Danish gunboats, under the command of First Lieutenant Danish gunboats manned by nearly 1,000 men, including infantry forces attempted to recapture Anholt on 27 February 1811.