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Excerpt from The English Purchase of the Danish Possessions: In the East Indies and Africa, 1845 and 1850 Nowadays it is almost forgotten that Denmark was for merly a colonial power of some importance. Of her overseas countries only Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands are still more or less attached to Denmark. The tropical possessions have all been given up or sold. They were acquired originally from economic motives, mari time tradition making it natural for the Danes and the Norwegians to compete for the advantages of colonial trade. It is true, that the Scandinavian nations were not among the first in the field but nevertheless they embarked on their undertakings fairly early, and in India, for example, they gained a footing before the French. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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