Gunboat War
| Gunboat War | |||||||||
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| Part of the English Wars and Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||
Danish privateers intercepting an enemy vessel during the Napoleonic Wars Christian Mølsted, 1888 | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Denmark–Norway Co-belligerent: Russian Empire (1808–09) Supported by: First French Empire |
United Kingdom Sweden (1808–09, 1813–1814) | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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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 | |||||||||
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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.