Katzenbär

Second Schleswig War

Hi Katzenbär. Your English is fine, no problems there. I've read some descriptions of the war of 1864, and I find the claim that Christian IX should have declared war very bizzare. Denmark was trying to avoid a war with Prussia at that time, but things didn't end that way. You might be interested in a post I made to User talk:Wispanow a few days ago. It is a translation of these events, as described in Dansk Udenrigspolitiks Historie. Please forgive me for the short reply, but I am not able to edit much for the next couple of days. If you need more details, please let me know, and I can try to dig them up. Anyway, in Denmark, the war is considered to have started on 1 February 1864. E.g. I recently found a book with contemporary illustrations from this war, and one of them showed a Danish soldier firing a shot at a distant enemy. It had the caption "On advance post on 1 February". If you read Danish, you might be interested in http://illustrerettidende.dk which has facsimile copies of a popular Danish newspaper. The archive includes the issues from 1863 and 1864. Regards. Valentinian ^{T / C} 17:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Thanks a lot! I think, I will change the articles about the war in 1864 on the German wikipedia the next days. Maybe I can (before doing that) take a look into the Dansk Udenrigspolitiks Historie at our library. greetings, --Katzenbär 17:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Glad to be of help. The relevant volume is volume III, "Fra helstat til nationalstat 1814-1864." [1] As you probably already know, the image shown on the cover is the Danish army retreating from the Dannevirke. Happy editing. Valentinian ^{T / C} 19:40, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

Any help on the relevant articles is of course very much welcome also on this Wikipedia. Don't worry too much about the language, there are plenty of people around here that can fix such issues. As I mentioned earlier, I've begun to upload some contemporary illustrations from the war. For obvious reasons, they depict a Danish view of these events, but they convey a lot of details that would be difficult to find elsewhere. So far, I've only uploaded a few images, but I hope to add some more soon. If you're interested, you can find them at Commons:Category:Second Schleswig War. Regards. Valentinian ^{T / C} 19:55, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

I have found the book. Very interesting. Thanks for your advice. best regards, --Katzenbär 13:18, 8 September 2007 (UTC)