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    film "Peter Tordenskjold", based on a Carit Etlar play, and the 1942 film "Tordenskjold går i land". In 1993, the two-act musical Tordenskjold opened...
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    HNoMS Tordenskjold, known locally as Panserskipet Tordenskjold, was a Norwegian coastal defence ship. She, her sister ship, Harald Haarfagre, and the slightly...
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    Tordenskjold Township is a township in Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 550 at the 2000 census. According to the United...
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    during the Great Northern War between a Dano-Norwegian fleet under Peter Tordenskjold and a Swedish fleet under Olof Strömstierna. The battle resulted in...
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  • borne the name Peter Tordenskjold, after Peter Tordenskjold. HDMS Tordenskjold (1852) , a frigate, in service 1854-1872. HDMS Tordenskjold (1880), a torpedo...
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  • place in 1720 and follows the acclaimed Danish-Norwegian Vice-Admiral Peter Tordenskjold at the end of his life, after the Great Nordic War, when he embarks...
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    was related on his maternal side to the Danish-Norwegian admiral Peter Tordenskjold. In Kristiania, in 1921, Zapffe learned for the first time about mountaineering...
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    years his junior His most notable project was the bronze sculpture of Peter Tordenskjold, Vice-Admiral in the Royal Danish-Norwegian Navy. His commission for...
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    Baltic. It was named after the celebrated Danish naval hero Peter Tordenskjold. The Tordenskjold was a three-decked ship of the line with a displacement of...
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    which was led by Olof Strömstierna. The Danes were led by the famous Peter Tordenskjold. The Swedish land defence was led by Fredrik of Hessen, and it consisted...
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  • Peter Tordenskjold (1691–1720) was a Dano-Norwegian naval hero. Tordenskjold or Tordenskiold may also refer to: Tordenskiold (noble family) Tordenskjold...
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    personnel enrolled in the common fleet; of these 10,000 were Norwegian. When Tordenskjold carried out his famous raid at Dynekil in 1716 more than 80 percent of...
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    – Louis-Guillaume Verrier, Canadian lawyer (d. 1758) October 28 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian sea officer (d. 1720) October 29 – Martin Folkes, English...
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    after famous Danish admirals, with the debatable exception of Peter Tordenskjold, a Norwegian-born officer who served during the personal union of Norway...
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    Dano-Norwegian assault on northern Bohuslän, ships under the command of Peter Tordenskjold attacked the Swedes at Marstrand harbor and the immobile ships of...
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    personnel enrolled in the common fleet. Of these 10 000 were Norwegian. When Tordenskjold made his raid at Dynekil in 1716, over 80% of the sailors and 90% of...
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    reached the city unopposed. During the Attack on Marstrand in 1719, Peter Tordenskjold carried out military deception against the Swedes. Although probably...
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    Tordenskjold was a torpedo ram built for the Royal Danish Navy in the early 1880s. The ship was sold for scrap in 1908. Tordenskjold was 67.75 meters (222 ft...
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    sister-in-law was landowner Maren Juel (1749–1815) and naval hero Peter Tordenskjold (1690–1720) was his great uncle. He entered attended Oslo Cathedral...
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    famously at Marstrand and Dynekilden. He was later known as Tordenskjold. In 1712, Tordenskjold succeeded in burning 80 Swedish naval cruisers, which played...
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  • 1682) 1667 – Maria Anna of Neuburg, Queen consort of Spain 1690 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian admiral (d. 1720) 1693 – Šimon Brixi, Czech composer (d...
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    municipality's coat-of-arms. During the Great Nordic War from 1700 to 1721 Peter Tordenskjold barricaded himself here in his fights against Sweden.: 95  In 1712...
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    The Tordenskjold class of coastal defence ships was ordered by Norway as part as the general rearmament in the time leading up to the events in 1905 -...
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    Danish Navy which was in use until 1990. The ship is named after Peter Tordenskjold, a 17th-century Dano-Norwegian vice admiral. The corvettes are fitted...
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    of Peter Tordenskjold during his time as a privateer. One of the bays on the island is named "Tordenskjoldsbukta" (Norwegian: Bay of Tordenskjold). The...
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  • Ole Christopher Wessel. Wessel is the grandnephew of the nobleman Peter Tordenskjold, brother in law of Maren Juel and the great-great-great-grandfather...
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  • – Louis-Guillaume Verrier, Canadian lawyer (d. 1758) October 28 – Peter Tordenskjold, Norwegian sea officer (d. 1720) October 29 – Martin Folkes, English...
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    Dano-Norwegian troops, under the command of the young commander Peter Tordenskjold, attempted to blockade Gothenburg and assault its newly constructed...
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    Svinesund. When he reached Dynekilen, his flotilla was attacked by Peter Tordenskjold who managed to destroy many of the ships after a five-hour-long battle...
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    allied Danish-Dutch fleet and the Swedish navy in the Baltic Sea Peter Tordenskjold – Norwegian sea officer Scania – Province in Sweden Gutes – Population...
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