Qualla: Battle of Als https://qualla.com/battle-of-als en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 14 Sep 2026 09:25:41 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/z/0/battle-of-als-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Battle of Als https://qualla.com/battle-of-als Battle of Als: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-als/ Photo credit Verlag J.J. Weber, Public domain. They left their packs behind and swapped their helmets for forage caps. That detail, more than any of the staff orders drawn up on 28 June 1864, tells you what kind of operation the crossing of the Alssund was meant to be: quiet, fast, and over before the far bank knew what was happening. At midnight the Prussian assault troops gathered in the Sottrup Storskov woods, hidden from Danish eyes by the trees. At two in the morning, 2,500 of them pushed out into the strait in small boats. Fifteen minutes later they were ashore on Als, and the Second Schleswig War was effectively finished.

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:49:34 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/z/0/battle-of-als-wp/u1z0-battle-of-als-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Als: The Talking Stopped https://qualla.com/battle-of-als/ Photo credit Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0. Dybbøl had fallen on 18 April, and the Danish garrison there had withdrawn onto the island of Als. Peace talks opened in London on 12 May. The Prussians offered Denmark a border close to where the modern one runs, and Copenhagen refused it. They then proposed settling Schleswig's...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:49:34 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/z/0/battle-of-als-wp/u1z0-battle-of-als-the-talking-stopped.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Als: The Wood That Was Never Cut https://qualla.com/battle-of-als/ Photo credit Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0. The Danish defence of Als was not casual. Trenches and artillery positions ran the length of the coast from Sønderborg in the south to Arnkilsøre at the tip of the Kær peninsula. Warships and gunboats patrolled the surrounding water, ready to intervene. The 1st Division held the ...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:49:34 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/z/0/battle-of-als-wp/u1z0-battle-of-als-the-wood-that-was-never-cut.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Als: Rolf Krake Turns Away https://qualla.com/battle-of-als/ Photo credit Hjart, CC BY-SA 4.0. General Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld issued the crossing orders on 28 June, with the plan itself the work of his chief of staff, Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal. The Manstein Division would go over first and seize Arnkil and Rønhave, then push toward Ulkebøl and Hørup to stop th...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:49:34 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/z/0/battle-of-als-wp/u1z0-battle-of-als-rolf-krake-turns-away.mp3 0:06 4 full Battle of Als: Retreat to Kegnæs https://qualla.com/battle-of-als/ Photo credit Lamiotte, Public domain. What followed on the island was not a battle so much as a collapse under weight. Roughly 10,000 Danish troops faced some 23,000 Prussians who now had a bridge. Regiment No. 5 fell back north toward Sønderborg. Regiment No. 18 fought the advancing Prussians around the village of K...

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]]> Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:49:34 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/1/z/0/battle-of-als-wp/u1z0-battle-of-als-retreat-to-kegn-s.mp3 0:06 5 full Battle of Als: Fifty-Six Years to the Vote https://qualla.com/battle-of-als/ Photo credit M.Bienick, CC BY-SA 2.5. Als passed to Prussia, and then to the German Empire, and it stayed German until the plebiscite of 1920 returned northern Schleswig to Denmark — the referendum Copenhagen had turned down in London in 1864, held at last, after two wars and two generations. The victors marked the ...

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