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They also fielded a tank brigade for most infantry corps. Quite detailled OB here Gives you quite a number of vehicles to shuffle about.

I quite agree but the only western 100 million consumers market in the day and age would be the USA and the role of the Danish PMs wife a month prior to referendum as a variete show as a red light district whore had made for bad press in that nation. It would be a difficult situation.

With a 90,1 % outturn of electorate of which 63,4 % was pro-EEC and 36,6 against it was hardly a close run thing. J.O. Krag the premier at the time saw this as his last major job before stepping down and made it. It had been on the Socialdemocratic agenda since the post-WWII years and yes the...

Had some thought on Valdemar II's reason for doing so some time ago :phttps://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=147018

Your welcome - no offence taken. :)

Valdemar IV merely reasserted his postion in Scania - mind you it was originally Danish not a Swedish land. Why would family during the Middle Ages be allies - if a prize perceived greater than family alliance were within reach they would grab it. Both Norway and Denmark would benefit from...

There's a difference though I may not have made it clear - the Jutes were the rebellious ones. The Sjaelland ones led by the Hvide supported Valdemar I during the protracted civil war and reaped the fruits of victory coming the dominate the Church and support the King.

Basically he would have a Charlemagne situation; i.e. when the Holstein counts is checked he'd to to Sweden to conquer then his sister in Norway - Margrethe - would stir up diplomatic trouble then the Holstein counts would make demands and he'd to pull out of Sweden to settle that. And so on and...

Danish nobility wasn't a uniform entity the Jutes being the rebellious lot. Medieval history is full of Jutland nobility uprisings against the king while the Sjaelland nobility led by the Hvide had the power to topple kings and even have a go on their own against Sweden during early 1200 and...

What about Haakon 6. Magnusson living longer post seeing his and Margretes (I) son Olaf become king of Denmark 1376. The military skills of Haakon and the diplomatic cunning of Margrethe could make for another Nordic Union led by Norway instead of Denmark.

The Schleswig Wars is a bad time to try making a greater Denmark. At the time of the first Denmark was already intent on getting rid of its colonial "empire". Beet sugar was competing with West Indian cane sugar and the latter losing; plantations/farming was in its infancy on Gold Coast/Ghana...

Could be a possible. According to some scholars North Jutland, Southern Norway and the Swedish west coast inhabitants did interact during prehistoric times. Anyway the Jutland nobility seemed to be the rebellious lot during the early kingdom time. Something like Viken, Bohuslän, Vestargötaland...

One area that would really help the formation of a fourth kingdom in Scandinavia would be Scania; it wouldn't off set Denmark too much or at least not make it as dominant as OTL. How about the two Götalands control Scania. That would make for a viable entity. Of course there's the problem of...

It could work that way though I would think the Viken is so important to Norway that this would be Norway rather than Vestergötaland! West Norway seems to have been a number of Jarl-doms with lots of independence. This may really play into the hands of the Danish kings making it easier to...

In that way Vestargötaland would de facto conquer the Norwegian mainland. ;) Perhaps Bohuslän and Halland - possibly Småland. Problem is that Denmark and Norway on their own have the resources and Sweden building upon Östergötaland and Svealand need time to develop. Remember the Hvide clan of...

According to Danish scholars unification of Sweden originated in the Kingdom of Östergötland. During part of the 12. century Västergötland was attached to the Kingdom of Denmark by conquest making the Danish crown prince its king - not unlike the Prince of Wales or Dauphin. Norway was just about...

First off the Danes had their own muzzleloading organ gun the Espignol but they didn't have the tactical doctrine to use it direct infantry support and treated it like part of the artillery arm. They wouldn't be any wiser using Gatlings. The Danes stuck with muzzleloaders as did the ACW armies...

Try looking up this site http://www.cgsc.edu/carl/nafziger.asp - guess you'd be able to find a lot. Its all in PDF format and a little difficult to sort through but possible.

Well the reasoning was the events unfolding in Southern Jutland prior to 807. Making themselves subservient to another overlord was just another nail in the coffin.

They did hold Dorestad for some time; the regular raids was due to the Jutish/Frisian royal line having rebelled against their overlords in Scandinavia thus getting as deserved. ITTL they would rather be party to the raids and Frisia a secure base for most of the journey to the rich playgrounds...