Gunboat War

Gunboat War
Part of the English Wars and Napoleonic Wars

Danish privateers intercepting an enemy vessel during the Napoleonic Wars
Christian Mølsted, 1888
Date12 August 1807 – 14 January 1814
(6 years, 5 months and 3 days)
Location
Result Anglo-Swedish victory
Treaty of Kiel
End of Denmark–Norway
Territorial
changes
Belligerents
Denmark–Norway
Co-belligerent:
Russian Empire (1808–09)
Supported by:
First French Empire
 United Kingdom
Sweden (1808–09, 1813–1814)
Commanders and leaders
Christian VII
Frederick VI
Jørgen Jørgensen
Joachim Castenschiold
Hans Peter Holm
Carl Jessen
Jørgen Falsen (POW)
Ernst Peymann 
J. C. A. Bielke
Johan Krieger
Gabriel Heiberg
Ketil Melstedt 
Alexander I
George III
Spencer Perceval
Robert Jenkinson
James Maurice
William Cathcart
James Gambier
Arthur Wellesley
George Wood
Richard Byron
George Parker
George Bettesworth 
George Langford
James Stewart
Charles XIV John
Charles XIII
Strength
Unknown Unknown
Casualties and losses
Total: 3,502
503 killed
382 wounded
2,439 captured
2 ships destroyed
75 ships captured
1 ship scuttled
Total: 550
91 killed
386 wounded
48 missing
2 ships damaged
14 ships captured

The Gunboat War (Danish: Kanonbådskrigen, Norwegian: Kanonbåtskrigen, Swedish: Kanonbåtskriget; 1807–1814) was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and Great Britain supported by Sweden during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the materially superior Royal Navy. In Scandinavia it is seen as the later stage of the English Wars, whose commencement is accounted as the First Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.