AccountOfTheSiegeBombardmentOfCopenhagen

duty is a . trefspais, the consequences o f which would be very serious. On the 4th September Major - General Strieker , Commandant o f the fortress of Cronborg, invited all the foreign troops* chiefly the Hanoverians, who landed irt the island of Zealand, by the following Proclamation: W hat injury has been dene to you, your nation or your Govern­ ment by our peaceable country? This court* try which believed or imagined itself to bd in peace with all the w o rld? Your Comman­ ders have proclaimed that they come to us as friends, although they act against us like our worst enemies, disdaining the law of nations and exercising hostilities, which we never could expect o f civilized nations* T h e y consider already our country as a conquest, altough they never w ill sub­ jugate it. The Inhabitants o f this Island w ill defend themselves like lions in their dens. Not y ou , but your government w ill be to blame for such a treachery, the con­ sequences o f which, sodn dr laterj Will fall