Copenhagen Good Friday — 953

Generated illustration. Not a historical photograph. An anchorage off a northern capital. Not a portrait.

Overview

Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview already records the 2 April action and its own casualty counts. This note covers Southey’s Good Friday sentence and the 953 figure only.¹

The Day

Southey says this was indeed a mournful day for Copenhagen. It was Good Friday; but the general agitation, and the mourning which was in every house, made all distinction of days be forgotten. It had been a murderous action. Our loss, in killed and wounded, was nine hundred and fifty-three.²

The spoken exchange about soldiers going below stays on RESEARCH_QUEUE. The overview’s 254 killed / 689 wounded stay on that page. This page does not invent a calendar date beyond Good Friday.

Sources

• @southey1813nelson
• Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview

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• Telescope — Copenhagen 2 April 1801
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• Hyde Parker Recalled — After Copenhagen 1801
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• @southey1813nelson

Footnotes

1. 2 April action and the overview counts: Battle of Copenhagen 1801 — Overview. ↩

2. “This was indeed a mournful day for Copenhagen. It was Good Friday; … Our loss, in killed and wounded, was nine hundred and fifty-three.” @southey1813nelson vol. 2, p. 141 (1813). Do not add spoken lines. Do not replace the overview counts. ↩