Terp, Holger: Danish Peace History - Det danske Fredsakademi

Kings Counsel granted two taxes more for the work. Too late. For the enemy a year
later came to the town where the citizens opened the gate and asked the enemy
colonel to show mercy. Shortly afterwards the fortification disappears so completely,
that today there is no “trace left of it”.
The war in 1658 went bad for the Danes. The Swedes conquered Jutland. Danes in
Jutland were drafted by the Swedes, but deserted and only Danish officers were in
place in the island Funen. The peasants of the small island were drafted, but deserted
helped by the landowners because all the officers were Dutch, and the peasants did
not want to learn that foreign language, tells the military historian Th. Thaulow 42 .
Thus deserting from the draft and deserting from war service was common in
Denmark.
According to church historian Ludwig Helweg who preceded by two years Rødam’s
biography of the first student rebellion with “the History of the Danish Church after
the Reformation” from 1851, during 1658 the king did not hope in vain for support by
the bourgeois and the academic in Copenhagen for the throne: “The students and the
citizens competed to give the promise, to defend themselves until the uttermost. Then
the powers were not used; but soon the opportunity to honour the promise came”.
“While the enemy was at the gate of the city, the promise to the king was given again.
The students armed. They totalled 600 in two companies. Everybody was ready for the
defence of the city, but first they congregated in the churches where the priests
admonished the great gathering to serious prayer and penance to turn the threatening
wrath of God. While everybody did their duties the priests and the bishop were on the
walls strengthening the terrified and weak-hearted”.
One student, Jesper Baltzarsen Könecken inspired by the Quaker views of the
sermons of Niels Svendsen, recommended the citizens to lay down their arms in order
to not be defiled with the blood of the enemy”. “But his voice”, wrote Helweg “became
silent in the common zeal”.
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42 Thaulow, Th.: Den danske soldat gennem tiderne. 1946 p. 65. See also the learned thesis of Aage
Fasmer Blomberg: Fyns vilkår under svenskekrigene 1957-1650. Odense University Press, 1973. 38
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Norge under hans Regjering indtrufne Begivenheder. Printed in Thieles Bogtrykkeri, 1817. - 456 pp.
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