WI: Charles X Gustav are captured at the Siege of Copenhagen

Valdemar II

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I was reading a book about earlier immigration to Denmark, in the chapter about the Dutch colony on Amager, it's mentined at the Siege of Copenhagen the Swedes landed a force of 2000 man landed on Amager sunday the 8. oktober 1658 under the personal command of Charles to cut off Copenhagen from the food production there. It was quite succesful, but Danish soldiers from Copenhagen drove the Swedish troops away already the 10. Oktober 1658, when the Swedes retreated Charles was closed to being captured. The succes was that the Dutch farmers had to move to Copenhagen until the war was over, and their property was destroyed. So their food production was stopped and they could only rebuild after the war.

What if Charles are captured by Danish troops, when the Swedes retreated?
 
With the king in Danish hands I'd say the rest of the war goes very differently. A peace that instead of Denmark handing over lots of territory, it'd be Sweden handing over... what? Gotland? The butterflies for Northern Europe will be quite big.
 
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