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Mindeblad om Danmarks Haedersdag d.2.April 1801
Portrait.
370 Danes were killed and 665 wounded at the Battle of Copenhagen. 253 of the British fleet were killed and 658 wounded; these figures rose in the period after the battle. Nelson used his previously unnoticed diplomatic skills to secure a 14-week truce, during which the Armed Neutrality he had been sent to break up did so, thanks to his victory and the assassination of the pact’s main architect, Tsar Paul I of Russia. In fact the Tsar had been murdered just before the battle and, had this been known, it might have been avoided.
370 Danes were killed and 665 wounded at the Battle of Copenhagen. 253 of the British fleet were killed and 658 wounded; these figures rose in the period after the battle. Nelson used his previously unnoticed diplomatic skills to secure a 14-week truce, during which the Armed Neutrality he had been sent to break up did so, thanks to his victory and the assassination of the pact’s main architect, Tsar Paul I of Russia. In fact the Tsar had been murdered just before the battle and, had this been known, it might have been avoided.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAH5659 |
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| Collection: | Fine art |
| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Em. Baerentzen & Co |
| Events: | Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Copenhagen, 1801 |
| Date made: | Early 19th century |
| People: | Danish Commanders, Danish Commanders |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 633 x 480 mm; Mount: 835 mm x 606 mm |