Danish people during the napoleonic era

I would like some informations about the danish and the napoleonic era.
Could someone tell me, what this country was and did during the napoleonic era?
I suppose they both fight with and then against the french? Can someone learn to me?

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The Napoleonic Wars

The Battle of Copenhagen, 1801.


The long decades of peace came to an abrupt end during the Napoleonic Wars. Britain felt threatened by the Armed Neutrality Treaty of 1794, which originally involved Denmark and Sweden, and later Prussia and Russia. The British fleet attacked Copenhagen in 1801 (Battle of Copenhagen (1801)), destroying much of Denmark's navy. Denmark nonetheless managed to remain uninvolved in the Napoleonic Wars until 1807. The British fleet bombarded Copenhagen again that year, causing considerable destruction to the city. They then captured the entire Danish fleet so that it couldn't be used by France to invade Britain (as the French had lost their own fleet at Trafalgar in 1805), leading to the Gunboat War (1807-1814). The confiscation of the Danish navy was widely criticized in Britain.
In 1809 Danish forces fighting on the French side participated in defeating the anti-Baonapartist German rebellion led by Ferdinand von Schill, at the Battle of Stralsund.
The Treaty of Kiel transferred Norway from the Danish to the Swedish crown in 1814, as a reward to Sweden — which had chosen the victorious side. But the Norwegians revolted, declared their independence, and elected crown-prince Christian Frederick (the future Christian VIII) as their king. However, the Norwegian independence movement failed to attract any support from the European powers. After a brief war with Sweden, Christian had to abdicate in order to preserve Norwegian autonomy, established in a personal union with Sweden.
Denmark suffered terribly as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, it's economy broken, Norway lost, and Copenhagen badly damaged.
Interestingly, this period also counts as "the Golden Age" of Danish intellectual history. A sign of renewed intellectual vigor was the introduction of compulsory schooling in 1814. Literature, painting, sculpture, and philosophy all experienced an unusually vibrant period. The stories of Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) became popular not only in Denmark, but all over Europe and in the United States of America[citation needed]. The ideas of the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) spread far beyond Denmark, influencing not only his own era, but proving instrumental in the development of new philosophical systems after him. The sculptures of Thorvaldsen (1770-1834) grace public buildings all over Denmark and other artists appreciated and copied his style. Grundtvig (1783-1872) tried to reinvigorate the Danish National Church and contributed to the hymns used by the church in Denmark.

Just a bit I could find

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Denmark did not want to choose sides and tried to stay neutral, but kept getting dragged into the war.

In 1801 Denmark was part of the League of Armed Neutrality, headed by Russia, which claimed the right to trade with both sides so long as they weren't trading military goods. But many "neutral" ships were actually supplying Napoleon with arms and Britain considered Denmark's membership in the League to be an act of war. The British navy destroyed the Danish fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, one of Nelson's many famous victories.

Still neutral in 1807, the British feared that Napoleon was going to seize the remains of the Danish fleet, so the British decided to pre-empt him and do the exact same thing themselves. In a very controversial action, Copenhagen was bombarded and attacked by land and the British sailed away with the Danish fleet.

This naturally drove Denmark into alliance with France. The small Danish army participated in some of Napoleon's campaigns and was on the losing side in 1814 when Napoleon fell. Denmark was punished by the allies by being forced to cede control of Norway to Sweden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark#Modern_history

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypld...d=237079&word=

Interesting to read this. thanks for the info guys

I learn something today

yeah it makes me wanna play the danes in GC

Too bad they skipped many of the interesting nations in this expansion, or, I mean stand alone.

Zing!

But yeah, it's kinda weird that Denmark would be included. Weird from a modern perspective, I mean.

Thanks to all of you for your work! I wanted to know the danish history before fight!