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The Danish-Norwegian ships had been partly manned by volunteers, many of whom had little or no naval experience, and as they were not all listed after the battle, it is uncertain what the exact Danish-Norwegian losses were, but estimates vary between 1, 135 to 2, 215 captured, killed or wounded.
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The emigration to the Netherlands was so devastating to the homelands that the Danish-Norwegian king issued penalties of death for emigration, but repeatedly had to issue amnesties for those willing to return, announced by posters in the streets of Amsterdam.
Still, the Danish-Norwegian government produced more than 200 in two models: the shallop gunboat had a crew of 76 men, with an 18-or 24-pounder cannon in the bow and another in the stern.
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* John Barclay, Captain in Danish-Norwegian military, 1643 to 1645, thought to have been the first male member of Clan Barclay
Danish-Norwegian and by
* The city of Godthåb is founded in Greenland by the Danish-Norwegian missionary Hans Egede.
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In 1871 the township was settled and named after Vice-Admiral Peter Tordenskjold, a Danish-Norwegian naval hero during the Great Northern War, by two Danish brothers.
The official report by Olfert Fischer estimated the Danish-Norwegian casualties to be between 1, 600 and 1, 800 captured, killed or wounded.
The town was founded in 1624 under the name Konings Bierg by Danish-Norwegian king Christian IV as a mining community.
The Jante Law as a concept was created by the Danish-Norwegian author Aksel Sandemose, who in his novel A fugitive crosses his tracks ( En flyktning krysser sitt spor, 1933, English translation published in the USA in 1936 ) identified the Law of Jante as ten rules.
This led the Danish king to invite German mercenaries to coach and command the Danish-Norwegian Armed Forces: a decision echoing down the centuries in traces of Germanic vocabulary used by the Norwegian military to this day.
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Sweden, at the time blocked from the North Sea by Danish-Norwegian territory, was interested in a port at the Atlantic coast, and Russian expansion also reached the coasts of the Barents Sea.
If attacked by a superior naval force, the Danish-Norwegian warships would basically be caught, cornered in a geographic death trap in the skerries from which there was no apparent escape, except through the one entrance, which was inadequately protected by coastal batteries.
Rev Asle Knudson regularly traveled by train to Grand Meadow to preach in the Danish-Norwegian Methodist Church until shortly before his death in 1939.
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Danish-Norwegian and naval
In the naval enactment, a light Danish-Norwegian force under Peter Tordenskjold trapped and defeated a similar Swedish force in Dynekilen fjord, just north of Strömstad, on the west coast of Sweden.
The group of Danish-Norwegian naval forces based in Norway was utilizing a sheltered but weakly defended anchorage on the coast of Norway as a base of operations.
The Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy or Common Fleet, also known simply as the Danish Navy, was the naval force of the united kingdoms Denmark and Norway from 1509 to 12 April 1814.
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The city, formerly named Christianssund, is named after the Danish-Norwegian king Christian VI in 1742.
When English raiders arrived in 1808, after sinking or capturing most of the Danish-Norwegian Navy in the Battle of Copenhagen, the amount of gunpowder in Iceland was so small that the governor of Iceland, Count Trampe, could not offer any resistance.
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Until 1906 the island and municipality name was spelled Frøien (- en is the definite article in Danish-Norwegian ).
He is also known for his attempts to end the Danish-Norwegian slave trade.
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One was Norwegian, another Danish, and the last a joint Danish-Norwegian concern.
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The concessionaires also had to pay a tax of one-tenth on the goods they traded, and all pelts were to be taken to company stores and shipped to France in company ships.
A ship run by a human brain could not run rogue or insane with the power and resources Central had to build into their scout ships.
According to the Bibliotheca, no one had realised that Ajax had raped Cassandra until Calchas, the Greek seer, warned the Greeks that Athena was furious at the treatment of her priestess and she would destroy the Greek ships if they didn't kill him immediately.
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The Danes had beached half their ships, and gone inland, either to rest their rowers or to forage for food.
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But the unexpected fall of Arkona had terrified the garrison, which surrendered unconditionally at the first appearance of the Danish ships.
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Essex had previously arranged to rendezvous at Fowey with the Parliamentarian fleet under the Earl of Warwick, but no ships appeared.
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The 18th-century author Charles Johnson claimed that Teach was for some time a sailor operating from Jamaica on privateer ships during Queen Anne's War, and that " he had often distinguished himself for his uncommon boldness and personal courage ".
Bostock also claimed that Teach had questioned him about the movements of local ships, but also that he had seemed unsurprised when Bostock told him of an expected royal pardon from London for all pirates.
Hume reinforced his crew with musket-armed soldiers and joined up with HMS Seaford to track the two ships, to no avail, though they discerned that the two ships had sunk a French vessel off St Christopher Island, and reported also that they had last been seen " gone down the North side of Hispaniola ".
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Nelson was a highly experienced officer who had been blinded in one eye during fighting in Corsica in 1794 and subsequently commended for his capture of two Spanish ships of the line at the Battle of Cape St. Vincent in February 1797.
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