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Andy Rugg
The redcoats’ firebombing of Copenhagen 204 years ago was the climax of a dirty war – it left 2,000 citizens dead and destroyed 30 percent of the buildings
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Andy Rugg
Today Sweden vs Denmark is chiefly a sporting fixture, not dissimilar to siblings striving to better one another, but for many centuries the countries hated each other, endlessly fighting wars and disputing territories
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Sean Coogan
It was an ill-advised move to join Russia by backing the French in the Napoleonic Wars against Britain. It cost Denmark 1,500 buildings, 400 lives and ultimately its status as a prosperous European nation
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