Battle of Heligoland (1864)
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The Battle of Heligoland was fought on 9 May 1864, during the Second Schleswig War, between a Danish squadron led by Commodore Edouard Suenson and a joint Austro-Prussian squadron commanded by the Aus
The naval battle of Heligoland in 1864 Josef Carl Berthold Püttner
The Austro-Prussian Squadron at Cuxhaven after its Defeat off Heligoland, 1864. Schwarzenberg and Radetzky.
The memorial to Edouard Suenson at Nyboder in Copenhagen
Jylland, preserved as a museum ship
Edouard Suenson
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Vice-Admiral Edouard Suenson was a Danish naval officer known for his participation in the First and Second Schleswig War. He served as the main Danish commander at the Battle of Heligoland in the lat
Suenson's return to Copenhagen after the Battle of Helgoland.
Suenson's grave in Holmens Cemetery
The Edouard Suenson Memorial