Marlborough's anxiety was finally allayed when, just past noon, Colonel Cadogan reported that Eugene's Prussian and Danish infantry were in place – the order for the general advance was given.

On the Allied right, Eugene's Prussian and Danish forces were desperately fighting the numerically superior forces of the Elector and Marsin.

However, without cavalry support, and threatened with envelopment, the Prussian and Danish infantry were in turn forced to pull back across the Nebel.

Then, declaring in disgust that he wished to " fight among brave men and not among cowards ", Eugene went into the attack with the Prussian and Danish infantry, as did the Dessauer, waving a regimental colour to inspire his troops.

Danish and Frisian were spoken predominantly in the north of the Prussian province of Schleswig-Holstein and Dutch in the western border areas of the Prussia -- that is, Hanover, Westphalia and the Rhine Province.

* 1864 – Second War of Schleswig: The Danish navy defeats the Austrian and Prussian fleets in the Battle of Heligoland.

* April 18 – Danish-Prussian War ( Second War of Schleswig ) – Battle of Dybbøl: The Prussian army fielding 10, 000 men defeats the Danish defending army of 9, 200 at Dybbøl Mill, after an artillery bombardment from April 7 to April 18.

* July 6 – The Danish Army beats the Prussian army at Fredericia, Jutland, thereby putting an end to the Prussian / Danish War until 1864.

* March 18 – Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat ( b. 1769 )

* April 3 – Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish and Prussian statesman and diplomat ( d. 1835 )

The Prussian conquest of former Danish lands heightened Alexandra's profound dislike of the Germans, a feeling which stayed with her for the rest of her life.

He could speak not a single word of Danish and on questioning admitted he was a Prussian who was the son of peasants: Adolph and Margaret from Eger.

After the Danish crown lost Lauenburg in the Second Schleswig War ( 1864 ), Lauenburg's estates of the realm offered the dukedom to the Prussian Hohenzollern dynasty in personal union, who accepted in 1865.

The Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck wanted to annexe the Danish territories of Schleswig-Holstein, chiefly for its port of Kiel, and had an alliance with Austria for this purpose.

At 9. 00am on 11 September, the Austrians attacked with the support of Prussian and Danish troops under the command of Count Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein, pushing the French left wing back into the forest behind them.

News of the successful trading spread quickly, and eventually British, Dutch, Danish, Prussian and Swedish traders arrived as well.

The Caps had short shrift, and the joint note which the Russian, Prussian and Danish ministers presented to the estates protesting, in menacing terms, against any " reprisals " on the part of the triumphant faction, only hastened the fall of the government.

Following the Austro-Prussian War of 1866, section five of the Peace of Prague stated that the people of Northern Schleswig should be granted the right to a referendum on whether they would remain under Prussian rule or return to Danish rule.

By doing so they lost, under the Danish law, their rights as Danish citizens, without acquiring those of Prussian subjects ; and this disability was transmitted to their children.

But in then Prussian law the right of Indigenat is not clearly differentiated from the status of a subject ; and the supreme court at Kiel decided in several cases that those who had opted for Danish citizenship had forfeited their rights under the Indigenat paragraph of the Treaty of Vienna.

The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.

On their left, on the broad plain between Taviers and Ramillies – and where Marlborough thought the decisive encounter must take place – Overkirk drew the 69 squadrons of the Dutch and Danish horse, supported by 19 battalions of Dutch infantry and two artillery pieces.

Taviers was of particular importance to the Franco-Bavarian position: it protected the otherwise unsupported flank of General de Guiscard ’ s cavalry on the open plain, while at the same time, it allowed the French infantry to pose a threat to the flanks of the Dutch and Danish squadrons as they came forward into position.

As the French ranks wavered, the leading squadrons of Württemberg ’ s Danish horse – now unhampered by enemy fire from either village – were also sent into the attack and fell upon the exposed flank of the Franco-Swiss infantry and dragoons.

Count Tilly, Johann Tserclaes then fought the Danish at the Battle of Lutter on 26 – 27 August 1626 in which his highly disciplined infantry charged the enemy lines four times whereupon they broke through, leading him to win decisively, and destroying more than half the fleeing Danish army ; as was uncharacteristic of warfare of the times.

At the expiry of this term Finck entered Danish service as general of infantry.

In December 1950 it was announced that the forces initially to come under General Eisenhower's command were to be the Seventh United States Army in Germany, the British Army of the Rhine, with 2nd & 7th Armoured Divisions, to be bolstered by 11th Armoured Division and a further infantry division, three French divisions in Germany and Austria, the Danish, Belgian, and the Independent Norwegian Brigades in Western Germany, and the American and British garrisons in Austria, Trieste, and Berlin.

In 1818 he became a page to the king of Denmark and a second lieutenant in a Danish infantry regiment.

In the Royal Danish Army, this has meant a restructuring where three of the most traditional and historic regiments in Europe provide the cornerstone of two cavalry and one infantry regiments, flanked by five different support regiments and an elite unit of special forces.

In January 2008, Danish tanks halted a flanking maneuver by Taliban forces near the Helmand River by providing gunfire in support of Danish and British infantry from elevated positions.

The Royal Life Guards ( Den Kongelige Livgarde ) is an infantry regiment of the Danish Army, founded in 1658 by King Frederik III.

The Guard Hussars is one of two cavalry regiments of the Danish Army, and was formed in 2001 through the amalgamation of the original Guard Hussars with two infantry regiments:

Prinsens Livregiment () was a Danish Army infantry regiment.

Jydske Dragonregiment () is the sole, purely armoured infantry regiment of the Royal Danish Army, and one of only three Danish combat regiments where soldiers are entitled to wear the black beret.

Most advisors pointed out that the Danish army possessed much more infantry, and it would be foolish to attack by foot.

Although Danish General Bibow bravely protected the infantry retreat, many of the Danish were massacred until Field Marshal Helmfelt ordered that the killing should stop and that Danish and Dutch soldiers that surrendered should be spared.

The victorious fleet was then caught unaware when attempting to leave the River Stour and was attacked by a Danish force at the mouth of the river.

Quentovic, near modern Etables, was attacked in 842 and 600 Danish ships attacked Hamburg in 845.

In 1575 after Muscovy attacked Danish claims in Livonia, Frederick II dropped out of the competition as well as the Holy Roman Emperor.

In May, the Danish fleet arrived and Stockholm was attacked by land and sea.

After the invasions of the 890s, Wessex and English Mercia continued to be attacked by the Danish settlers in England, and by small Danish raiding forces from overseas, but these incursions were usually defeated, while there were no further major invasions from the continent.

The Danish king had brought a large fleet to England and attacked not only York, but Exeter and Shrewsbury.

As a reprisal, in 1043 it was attacked by the Danish king Magnus the Good.

Some 10 years later a Danish fleet probably from the Great Heathen Army in East Anglia arrived and attacked the settlement with the Irish and Norwegian enemies of the Hiberno-Norse, but were repulsed.

Æthelred attacked the Danish fortifications and was routed.

The Saxons, led by Odda, attacked the Danes while they slept and defeated the superior Danish forces, saving Alfred from being trapped between the two armies.

In late 1699 Charles sent a minor detachment to reinforce his brother-in-law Frederick IV of Holstein-Gottorp, who was attacked by Danish forces the following year.

According to legend, he was also used as a war elephant in 804 when the Danish king Godfred attacked a trading village near Denmark and moved the people by force to his newly-built trading village in Hedeby.

His initial success came in the Moray Firth where he attacked and sank the Danish 10, 517 ton tanker Danmark on 12 January 1940, using torpedoes.

Further Danish forces had settled on the land before Guthrum attacked Wessex: in East Anglia, and in Mercia between the treaty at Exeter and the attack on Chippenham ; many others were lost in a storm off Swanage in 876-7, with 120 ships wrecked Internal disunity was threatening to tear the Danes apart, and they needed time to reorganize.

Later that year, a Danish Viking fleet sailed up to York along the Humber and the Ouse, and attacked both castles with the assistance of Cospatrick of Northumbria and a number of local rebels.

King Eirik himself led a large Norwegian fleet which, along with the Danish outlaws, attacked Denmark in 1289, burning Elsinore and threatening Copenhagen.

In December 1813, the Swedish army attacked Danish troops in Holstein.

He thought the difficulty would be to bring the war to an end, as the Danish army would, if possible, retire to the islands, where, as the Danes had the command of the sea, it could not be attacked.

* In 1801 Horatio Nelson under the command of Commodore Hyde Parker attacked and defeated by surprise and without a declaration of war, the Danish fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen.

The Austrians attacked towards the refortified Dannevirke frontally while the Prussian forces struck the Danish fortifications at Mysunde ( on the Schlei coast of Schwansen east of Schleswig town ), trying to bypass the Danevirke by crossing the frozen Schlei inlet, but in six hours could not take the Danish positions, and retreated.