3-016-837 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Denmark: inside Kolding Gate, Fredericia - Danish soldiers marching out to meet the Austrians, 1864. 'The monument inside the Kolding Gate, which is seen in our Engraving, is an interesting record of the Schleswig-Holstein war of fifteen years ago. It is a fine bronze statue of the representative Danish infantry soldier, "Den Tappre Land-Soldat," whose valour is justly extolled in the well-known National Song of Denmark. On the pedestal of this statue is inscribed the date "July 6, 1849." On that occasion the Germans, being allowed to take up the ground west, north, and east of the city, beset it very closely, and might have forced it to surrender ; "but then it was that the Danes, gathering courage from despair, ventured on that glorious sally which not only baffled the besiegers, but inflicted upon them the memorable defeat which had so great an influence on the final issue of the war".' From "Illustrated London News", 1864.