Steen Andersen Bille (1751–1833)
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Steen Andersen Bille (1751–1833) was a Danish naval officer and a member of the Bille family. He rose to the rank of admiral and became a Privy Counselor during the period of Denmark's policy of "armed neutrality" following the Gunboat War. He was instrumental in the rebuilding of the Danish Navy after 1814.
Steen Andersen Bille (1751–1833)
At Toldboden (The Customs House), Major General Heinrich Ernst Peymann says goodbye to Vice Admiral Steen Andersen Bille, who is heading out for an attack on the British Navy on 17 August 1807.
Steen Andersen Bille
Frederikke Vilhelmine Bille
Gunboat War
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The Gunboat War was a naval conflict between Denmark–Norway and Great Britain supported by Sweden during the Napoleonic Wars. The war's name is derived from the Danish tactic of employing small gunboats against the materially superior Royal Navy. In Scandinavia it is seen as the later stage of the English Wars, whose commencement is accounted as the First Battle of Copenhagen in 1801.
Danish privateers intercepting an enemy vessel during the Napoleonic Wars, a painting by Christian Mølsted depicting an unspecified engagement in the Gunboat War
Danish shallop gunboat
The British bombardment of Copenhagen in September 1807
An illustration of the Battle of Zealand Point.