HMS Dictator (1783)
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HMS Dictator was a 64-gun third-rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 6 January 1783 at Limehouse. She was converted into a troopship in 1798, and broken up in 1817.
Five Danish gunboats under command of Captain-Lieutenant J. J. Suenson are attacked by HMS Dictator on 26 June 1808.
HMS Dictator (1783) in the foreground, with British marines sailing ashore, in the process of sinking the Najaden (1811), in the left background.
Battle of Copenhagen (1807)
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The Second Battle of Copenhagen was a British bombardment of the Danish capital, Copenhagen, in order to capture or destroy the Dano-Norwegian fleet during the Napoleonic Wars. The incident led to the outbreak of the Anglo-Russian War of 1807, which ended with the Treaty of Örebro in 1812. The attack on Denmark, a neutral country, was heavily criticized internationally.
A painting of the British bombardment by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg
Contemporary Danish painting of the bombardment at night
An illustration by C.W. Eckersberg of the Church of Our Lady being bombarded
Copenhagen after the bombardment, 1807