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The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801

Image credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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In 1801 the northern powers of Russia, Denmark, Sweden and Prussia – the last three under pressure from the mentally unstable Tsar Paul I – formed an armed coalition that constituted a threat to British interests in the Baltic. A British fleet under Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, with Lord Nelson as his second-in-command, was therefore dispatched to disrupt it. Nelson proposed an assault on the Danish fleet anchored in a defensive formation off Copenhagen. By 30 March the fleet anchored off the Swedish island of Hven, 15 miles from Copenhagen. Nelson took the lighter ships of the squadron (74 guns and less) south of the city via the Hollands Deep, the outer channel east of the Middle Ground shoal, while Parker with the larger vessels remained to the north.

National Maritime Museum

London

Title

The Battle of Copenhagen, 2 April 1801

Date

1801

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 49.5 x W 81.3 cm

Accession number

BHC0528

Work type

Painting

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