Gunboat War

BelligerentsDenmark–Norway
Co-belligerent:
Russian Empire(1808–09)
Supported by:
First French EmpireUnited Kingdom
Sweden(1808–09, 1813–1814)Commanders and leadersChristian VII
Frederick VI
Jørgen Jørgensen
Joachim Castenschiold
Hans Peter Holm
Carl Jessen
Jørgen Falsen(POW)
Ernst Peymann



†
Alexander IGeorge III
Spencer Perceval
Robert Jenkinson
James Maurice
William Cathcart
James Gambier
Arthur Wellesley
George Wood
Richard Byron
George Parker
George Bettesworth†


Charles XIV John
Charles XIIIStrength Unknown UnknownCasualties and lossesTotal: 3,502
503 killed
382 wounded
2,439 captured
2 ships destroyed
75 ships captured
1 ship scuttledTotal: 550
91 killed
386 wounded
48 missing
2 ships damaged
14 ships captured

The Gunboat War (1807–1814) 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.