AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen
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ployed with advantage, for our common defence, be provided with arms, and we shall with energy repel our enemy, who imagines himself capable o f dictating igno minious laws to a brave and noble nation.14 Frequent skirmishing took daily place between the advanee-posts of the british and danishttoops without succefs on either side Sept. 2 the Commanders o f the bri- . .. fish forces summoned for the last time General Peymann to surrender the danish ships of the line on the before mentioned conditions and in an amicable manner, de claring, that the horrors o f a bombardment would be the immediate consequences o f a refusal, and that it must tall on the head o f • those, in whose power it was to avert the evil by a single word. The Commandant persisting in his refusal, a bombardment, which had been prepaiing for three weeks, was now inevitable, but unacquainted with its dreadful consequences, the most part o f the inhabitants were not much in dread o f
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