Abstract
At the turn of the nineteenth century, the territory of the Danish state stretched more than 1,700 kilometers from North Cape in Norway to the banks of the Elbe in Germany. In addition to the kingdoms of Denmark and Norway, the state comprised the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, the dependencies of Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland, and overseas colonies in the West and East Indies and on the Gold Coast. In total, 2.5 million people lived within its borders, bound together by loyalty towards the same king and a patriotic ideology. This overextended coastal state with its many islands and overseas provinces was difficult to defend. The navy was therefore vital to the Danish-Norwegian union.
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