British bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807: Danish eyewitness accounts
Unpublished documents from the State Archive of the Russian Federation shed light on the events associated with the second British bombardment of Copenhagen in September 1807. Extracts from publications in the official Danish press, possibly reprinted in French or German newspapers, are eyewitness accounts of Danes, shocked and insulted by the repeated (the first time it happened in 1801) attack on a neutral country - a barbaric act of the British government. In relation to Russian history, these documents allow us to make an assumption about when exactly Emperor Alexander I decided to provide assistance to Denmark with ground forces, having made an expedition to this country to repel the British attack. The refusal of the expedition forced Alexander I to work on strengthening the defense capability of the Russian Baltic ports, which turned out to be extremely necessary in during the war with Sweden in 1808-1809.