The English Wars () were a series of conflicts between Sweden and Denmark-Norway as part of the Napoleonic Wars. It is named after the most prominent region of its other main participant, the United Kingdom, which declared war on Denmark-Norway due to disagreements over the neutrality of Danish trade and to prevent the Danish fleet falling into the hands of the First French Empire. It began with the first battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and its latter stage from 1807 onwards was followed by the Gunboat War, the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 and the Swedish invasion of Holstein in 1814.
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| - The English Wars () were a series of conflicts between Sweden and Denmark-Norway as part of the Napoleonic Wars. It is named after the most prominent region of its other main participant, the United Kingdom, which declared war on Denmark-Norway due to disagreements over the neutrality of Danish trade and to prevent the Danish fleet falling into the hands of the First French Empire. It began with the first battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and its latter stage from 1807 onwards was followed by the Gunboat War, the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 and the Swedish invasion of Holstein in 1814.
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Casus
| - Danish participation in the Second League of Armed Neutrality
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Partof
| - the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars
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Commander
| - Horatio Nelson
- Sir Arthur Wellesley
- William Cathcart
- Prince Christian August of Augustenburg
- James Gambier
- Frederick VI
- Sir Hyde Parker
- Charles John[d]
- Charles XIII[c]
- Christian VII
- Ernst Peymann
- Gustav IV Adolf[c]
- Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte[d]
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Territory
| - Heligoland ceded to United Kingdom
- Norway ceded to Sweden
- Swedish Pomerania ceded to Denmark
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Caption
| - Battle of Copenhagen (1801) by Vilhelm Østergaard
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Result
| - Anglo-Swedish victory, Treaty of Kiel
*Denmark joined the anti-Napoleonic alliance
*The Danish king renounced claims to the Kingdom of Norway
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Place
| - Denmark-Norway, Sweden and northern Germany
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| - The English Wars () were a series of conflicts between Sweden and Denmark-Norway as part of the Napoleonic Wars. It is named after the most prominent region of its other main participant, the United Kingdom, which declared war on Denmark-Norway due to disagreements over the neutrality of Danish trade and to prevent the Danish fleet falling into the hands of the First French Empire. It began with the first battle of Copenhagen in 1801 and its latter stage from 1807 onwards was followed by the Gunboat War, the Dano-Swedish War of 1808-1809 and the Swedish invasion of Holstein in 1814.
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