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124 Crisis Means Opportunity
The Napoleonic Wars strained the Danish-Norwegian union bringing starvation, unrest and a crisis of legitimacy. Even worse, Sweden exploited the fact that Copenhagen had sided with the losing French, and forced king Fred...
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124 Crisis Means Opportunity is an episode from The Scandinavian History Podcast by Mikael Shainkman. The Napoleonic Wars strained the Danish-Norwegian union bringing starvation, unrest and a crisis of legitimacy. Even worse, Sweden exploit...
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Published Jan 2, 2026, 35:34 long, audio available.
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The Napoleonic Wars strained the Danish-Norwegian union bringing starvation, unrest and a crisis of legitimacy. Even worse, Sweden exploited the fact that Copenhagen had sided with the losing French, and forced king Frederik VI to hand over Norway to Sweden. But the Norwegians didn’t want to join a new union with Sweden, and saw an opportunity.
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124 Crisis Means Opportunity is an episode from The Scandinavian History Podcast by Mikael Shainkman.
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124 Crisis Means Opportunity is from The Scandinavian History Podcast by Mikael Shainkman.
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Published Jan 2, 2026 and 35:34 long