1848-1851
1. SLESVIGSKE KRIG
FIRST SCHLESWIG WAR

VED DENNE TRÆFNING SOM FANDT STED
PÅ DRAGONERNES EGEN EKSERCERPLADS
- HVOR SENERE KOMMUNEHOSPITALET BLEV OPFØRT -
LYKKEDES DET DE DANSKE DRAGONER
AT SLÅ PREUSSERNE PÅ FLUGT.

AT THIS ENCOUNTER WHICH TOOK PLACE
AT THE DRAGOONS OWN DRILLGROUND
- WHERE LATER THE MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL WAS BUILT -
THE DANISH DRAGOONS SUCCEDED IN PUTTING
THE PRUSSIANS TO FLIGHT.

THE FIRST SCHLESWIG WAR OR THREE YEARS WAR
1848 - 1851
WAS THE FIRST ROUND OF MILITARY CONFLICT
IN SOUTHERN DENMARK AND NORTHERN GERMANY
ROOTED IN THE SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN QUESTION
CONTESTING THE ISSUE WHO SHOULD CONTROL
THE DUCHIES OF SCHLESVIG AND HOLSTEIN.
THE WAR ALSO INVOLVED TROOPS
FROM PRUSSIA AND SWEDEN.
UNDER INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE
THE PRUSSIANS HAD TO WITHDRAW THEIR FORCES.
AS A RESULT THE WAR ENDED
WITH DANISH VICTORY OVER THE REBELS.
A SECOND CONFLICT ERUPTED IN 1864.

The Schleswig-Holstein Question 
was a complex set of diplomatic and other issues
arising in the 19th century from the relations
of two duchies, Schleswig and Holstein,
to the Danish crown, to the German Confederation,
and to each other.
The British statesman Lord Palmerston 
is reported to have said:
"Only three people have ever really
understood the Schleswig-Holstein business—
- the Prince Consort, who is dead—
- a German professor, who has gone mad—
- and I, who have forgotten all about it."