Gunboat War
| The Gunboat War | |||||||||
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| Part of the English Wars and the Napoleonic Wars | |||||||||
Danish privateers intercepting an enemy vessel during the Napoleonic Wars, a painting by Christian Mølsted depicting an unspecified engagement in the Gunboat War | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
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Denmark–Norway Co-belligerent: Russian Empire (1808–09) Supported by: French Empire |
United Kingdom Sweden (1808–09, 1813–1814) | ||||||||
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Christian VII Frederick VI Alexander I |
George III Spencer Perceval Robert Jenkinson Charles XIV John Charles XIII | ||||||||
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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.