Battle of Jasmund (1864)
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The naval Battle of Jasmund took place between elements of the Danish and Prussian navies on 17 March 1864 during the Second Schleswig War. The action took place east of the Jasmund peninsula on the P
Sjælland (right) engaging with the paddlewheel steamer Loreley and the corvette Nymphe. Painting by Alex Kircher.
Danish and Prussian warships battling off Swinemünde, by Carl Frederik Sørensen
Painting of the battle, depicting the Prussian squadron, by Willy Stöwer
Rear Admiral Edvard van Dockum, the Danish commander
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