Terp, Holger: Danish Peace History - Det danske Fredsakademi

paid or supplemented. The income from those funds came from fines and fees from
failing to appear at the session.
Now the pacific desertion cases and protests against conscription should be easy to
record in the period up to the Danish constitution of 1849.
The intelligence work of the police began on May tenth 1780, according to the
historian Kenn Tarbesen 66 . The police intelligence should “control and put social clubs
under surveillance”.
During the Napoleonic wars there was a rebellion in the Norwegian valley Lejrdalen
or Lerdalen against conscription in January 1802. Also there was a similar rebellion in
the island Karmø near the Norwegian town of Stavanger. The people in Lejr-dalen
meet at the draft and were registered, but did not report for service in the army. An
armed military expedition was sent from Denmark to the dale, and the citizens gave
in; but formed only a light company with the explanation, that none of them “could
ski” 67 !
After the battle of Copenhagen, Danish and Norwegian prisoners of war were
imprisoned in English prison ships (an early form of concentration camps) up to 1814,
when they were released. Some of the imprisoned Norwegian sailors became Quakers
and established Quaker communities in Norway, which came under Swedish rule after
the Napoleonic wars 68 . The British imprisonment policy during the Napoleonic wars
needs attention, regarding the prisoners of war from countries other than Denmark
and Norway.
In 1841 the Quaker Elizabeth Fry and her brother Joseph John Gurney visited
Copenhagen, where they had talks with the king, recommending him to abolish
slavery in the Danish West Indies Islands 69 .
In the “strange year” of 1848 the Danish-German three year wars began 70 .
66 Politiets Efterretningstjeneste. Terp, Holger: Noter om de danske efterretningstjenesters historie. In:
Elsk-værdig sikkerhed, 1998, Vol. II supplement 14.
67 Reventlow, C. D.: Betænkning om Den nationale Hærreform og Forsvarssagens øvrige Udvikling i
Perioden Oktober 1801-Juni 1803. In: Meddelelser fra Krigsarkiverne, 1883 pp. 289-290.
68 Here Norway disappears in my article. London Meeting for Sufferings: Minutes 1807-1814.
The archives of London Yearly Meeting (now Britain Yearly Meeting), including the minutes and other
records of the Meeting for Sufferings are housed in Friends House in London. Friends Historical
Library has microfilm of the minutes as well as microfilm of other records of London/Britain Yearly
Meeting.
Roos, Carl: Prisonen : Danske og norske krigsfanger 1807-1814, 1954. - 233 pp.
69 Alexander, G. W.: Om den moralske Forpligtigelse til og det Hensigtsmæssige af Strax og
fuldstændigt at ophæve Slaveriet i de dansk-vestindiske Kolonier. Studenterforeningen, 1843. - 27 pp.
Friis, Finn: Christian den Ottendes og Caroline Amalies forbindelser med Elisabeth Fry og andre
kvækere. In: Kirkehistoriske Samlinger 1975 pp. 109-143.
70 The concept strange year is borrowed from the anthology: 1948 – det mærkelige år / editor Claus
Bjørn, 1998.