Gunboat War

The Gunboat War
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
Date12 August 1807 – 14 January 1814
(6 years, 5 months and 3 days)
Location
Result Anglo-Swedish victory
Treaty of Kiel
End of Denmark-Norway
Territorial
changes
Belligerents
Denmark–Norway Denmark–Norway
Co-belligerent:
Russian Empire Russian Empire (1808–09)
Supported by:
First French Empire French Empire[1]		 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland United Kingdom
Sweden Sweden (1808–09, 1813–1814)
Commanders and leaders
Denmark–Norway Christian VII
Denmark–Norway Frederick VI
Russian Empire Alexander I		 United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland George III
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Spencer Perceval
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland Robert Jenkinson
SwedenCharles XIV John
SwedenCharles XIII

The Gunboat War (Danish: Kanonbådskrigen, Norwegian: Kanonbåtkrigen, 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.

  1. ^ Olesen, Jens E. (2008). "Schwedisch-Pommern in der schwedischen Politik nach 1806". In North, Michael; Riemer, Robert. Das Ende des Alten Reiches im Ostseeraum. Wahrnehmungen und Transformationen (in German). Böhlau. pp. 289. ISBN 3-412-20108-1.