In 1801, a daring British naval attack forced Denmark out of a neutral alliance
Defying orders and putting a telescope to his blind eye, Admiral Horatio Nelson led a fierce naval assault in 1801 that changed the course of the Napoleonic Wars in the Baltic Sea.
The Battle of Copenhagen began on April 2, 1801, as the British Royal Navy sought to break up the Second League of Armed Neutrality. Fearing that Denmark's fleet would fall under French control, the British launched a daring preemptive strike in the shallow, treacherous waters of the harbor.
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