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Battle of Saltholm
The Battle of Saltholm was fought on 9 June 1808 during the Gunboat War. Danish and Norwegian ships attacked a British convoy off the island of Saltholm in Øresund Strait near Copenhagen.
The convoy of 70 British merchant vessels left Malmö Roads under the escort of three Royal Navy brigs and one bomb vessel. The brigs were of 12 guns, the 14-gun and the 12-gun . The bomb was .
The Danes and the Norwegian assembled twenty-one gunboats and seven mortar boats for the attack. Once the
Saltholm
Saltholm ("Salt Islet") is a Danish island in the Øresund, the strait that separates Denmark and Sweden. It is located to the east of the Danish island of Amager in Tårnby municipality and lies just to the west of the sea border between Denmark and Sweden. It is 7 km long and 3 km wide, covering an area of 16 km, making it Denmark's 21st largest island. Saltholm is very flat; its highest point stands only 2 m (6 ft