The Great Gamble
by Dudley Pope
On 2nd April, 1801, the Royal Navy anchored a few hundred yards off the Copenhagen waterfront and engaged the Danes in a brief but bloody battle. Earlier, insipired by Paul I of Russia, the northern powers began to form an armed coalition which could become a serious threat to British interests, and the arrival of a British fleet in the Baltic was in answer to this perceived threat.
HistoryWars & ConflictsNapoleonic Wars
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERChatham
LENGTH579
LANGUAGEEN
British writer (1925–1997)
The Great Gamble
by Dudley Pope
On 2nd April, 1801, the Royal Navy anchored a few hundred yards off the Copenhagen waterfront and engaged the Danes in a brief but bloody battle. Earlier, insipired by Paul I of Russia, the northern powers began to form an armed coalition which could become a serious threat to British interests, and the arrival of a British fleet in the Baltic was in answer to this perceived threat.
HistoryWars & ConflictsNapoleonic Wars
RELEASED2001
PUBLISHERChatham
LENGTH579
LANGUAGEEN
British writer (1925–1997)
