Hanging with History
The first season focuses on the origins of the Industrial Revolution or the Great Enrichment, we go deep into history to gain enough background knowledge to actually understand the various theories of the origins of the Great Enrichment. Eventually we learn that we also need to know how the miracle was consolidated, as the many other close approaches to the Industrial Revolution failed.A kwirky style, but intellectually ambitious with the goal of understanding history well enough to understand the miracle that happened that one time. It's gonna be a long series.
Hanging with History
1807 Battle of Copenhagen, Part 3
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Harald Hansen
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Season 1
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Episode 175
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Wellington, Jarlsberg, battle of the Wooden Shoes, Norge. Such excitement.
The Danish Navy is simply too large in the world of 1807 to simply sit there, stored up in ordinary in København's harbor.
And the Danish merchant fleet, providing a carry trade to the world, cannot be left outside of Napoleon's economic warfare with Britain.
Therefore, since the current situation is untenable, either France or Britain will have its way with Denmark. The process is unpleasant, to say the least, but the Danish fleet and its naval stores end up in British hands.
But what about Norway?