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Peter Willemoes (11 May 1783 – 22 March 1808) was a Danish naval officer.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 19 relations: Assens, Denmark, Battle of Copenhagen (1801), Battle of Copenhagen (1807), Battle of Zealand Point, Copenhagen, Danish Order of Freemasons, Denmark, Denmark–Norway, Funen, Great Belt, Gyldendal, HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik, Mediterranean Sea, Royal Danish Navy, Russia, Ship of the line, Sjællands Odde, Zealand, 1801 in Denmark.

  2. 19th-century Danish naval officers
  3. Danish military personnel of the Gunboat War
  4. Danish military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars
  5. Military personnel killed in the Napoleonic Wars
  6. People from Assens Municipality

Assens, Denmark

Assens is a town with a population of 6,001 (1 January 2024) The Mobile Statbank from Statistics Denmark on the west coast of the island of Funen on the eastern side of the Little Belt in central Denmark.

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Battle of Copenhagen (1801)

The Battle of Copenhagen of 1801 (Danish: Slaget på Reden), also known as the First Battle of Copenhagen to distinguish it from the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807, was a naval battle in which a British fleet fought and defeated a smaller force of the Dano-Norwegian Navy anchored near Copenhagen on 2 April 1801.

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Battle of Copenhagen (1807)

The Second Battle of Copenhagen (or the Bombardment of Copenhagen) (16 August – 7 September 1807) was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Napoleonic Wars.

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Battle of Zealand Point

The Battle of Zealand Point was a naval battle of the English Wars and the Gunboat War.

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Copenhagen

Copenhagen (København) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the urban area.

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Danish Order of Freemasons

The Danish Order of Freemasons (Den Danske Frimurerorden, abbr.: DDFO), in English also known as the Grand Lodge of Denmark, is a governing body of some Masonic Lodges in Denmark.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark) is a Nordic country in the south-central portion of Northern Europe.

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Denmark–Norway

Denmark–Norway (Danish and Norwegian: Danmark–Norge) is a term for the 16th-to-19th-century multi-national and multi-lingual real unionFeldbæk 1998:11 consisting of the Kingdom of Denmark, the Kingdom of Norway (including the then Norwegian overseas possessions: the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland, and other possessions), the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Duchy of Holstein.

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Funen

Funen (Fyn), with an area of, is the third-largest island of Denmark, after Zealand and Vendsyssel-Thy.

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Great Belt

The Great Belt (Storebælt) is a strait between the major islands of Zealand (Sjælland) and Funen (Fyn) in Denmark.

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Gyldendal

Gyldendalske Boghandel, Nordisk Forlag A/S, usually referred to simply as Gyldendal, is a Danish publishing house.

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HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik

HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik was a ship of the line in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy.

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Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, on the east by the Levant in West Asia, and on the west almost by the Morocco–Spain border.

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Royal Danish Navy

The Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet) is the sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Ship of the line

A ship of the line was a type of naval warship constructed during the Age of Sail from the 17th century to the mid-19th century.

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Sjællands Odde

Sjællands Odde is a peninsula on the northwest coast of Zealand between the Kattegat and Sejerø Bay.

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Zealand

Zealand (Sjælland) at 7,031 km2 is the largest and most populous island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size).

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1801 in Denmark

Events from the year 1801 in Denmark.

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See also

19th-century Danish naval officers

Danish military personnel of the Gunboat War

Danish military personnel of the Napoleonic Wars

Military personnel killed in the Napoleonic Wars

People from Assens Municipality

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Willemoes

Also known as Willemoes, Peter.