Book contents
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I The Origins of the Napoleonic Wars
- Part II Napoleon and his Empire
- Part III War Aims
- 14 French Preponderance and the European System
- 15 Habsburg Grand Strategy in the Napoleonic Wars
- 16 Prussian Foreign Policy and War Aims, 1790–1815
- 17 British War Aims, 1793–1815
- 18 Alexander I’s Objectives in the Franco-Russian Wars, 1801–1815
- 19 Ottoman War Aims
- 20 Spain and Portugal
- 21 War Aims: Scandinavia
- Bibliographical Essays
- Index
21 - War Aims: Scandinavia
from Part III - War Aims
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Maps
- Contributors to Volume I
- Acknowledgements
- General Introduction
- Introduction to Volume I
- Part I The Origins of the Napoleonic Wars
- Part II Napoleon and his Empire
- Part III War Aims
- 14 French Preponderance and the European System
- 15 Habsburg Grand Strategy in the Napoleonic Wars
- 16 Prussian Foreign Policy and War Aims, 1790–1815
- 17 British War Aims, 1793–1815
- 18 Alexander I’s Objectives in the Franco-Russian Wars, 1801–1815
- 19 Ottoman War Aims
- 20 Spain and Portugal
- 21 War Aims: Scandinavia
- Bibliographical Essays
- Index
Summary
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Scandinavia consisted of the two composite states of Denmark and Sweden.1 The Danish state comprised the Kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, the Danish Duchy of Schleswig, the German Duchy of Holstein, the North Atlantic dependencies of Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, and overseas colonies in the West Indies, the East Indies and the Gold Coast. In total, a population of 2.5 million people. The Swedish state consisted of Sweden proper, Finland, the Duchy of Swedish Pomerania in Germany, the Hansa town of Wismar, and Saint Barthélemy in the Caribbean. All in all, a total population of 3.3 people (Map 21.1).
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- The Cambridge History of the Napoleonic Wars , pp. 427 - 448Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022