Read more: https://www.navalhistory.dk/English/History/1801_1814/Englandskrigene.htm
TIL that after the Danish Navy was destroyed by the British in the Napoleonic wars, the Danes responded by planting 90,000 oak trees toward the Navy’s rebirth. In 2007 the Defense Ministry was informed the trees were ready.
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8-D chess move. Always thinking ahead.
Who is the heir? Let em know.
Yep, that’s a government job.
I remember reading this! The Danes were unknowingly leading the way to net-zero CO2 emissions centuries before the rest of us