Aaron Burr

The Battle of Køge was a battle on 29 August 1807 between British troops besieging Copenhagen and Danish militia raised on Sjælland. It... ended in British victory and also known as the 'Træskoslaget' or 'Clogs Battle', since the poorly-equipped Danish militia threw their heavy wooden clogs away when they were fleeing. The British government feared the powerful Danish fleet was about to fall into French hands and thus delivered Denmark an ultimatum to sail its fleet to Britain or face war with Britain. The Danes refused to sail it to Britain and so British troops landed at Vedbæk on 16 August and began to bombard Copenhagen. Generalløjtnant Castenschiold was ordered to create a frikorps and rescue Copenhagen. Castenschiold's forces concentrated themselves around Roskilde and Lejre, while general Oxholm was sent south to activate the Søndre Sjællandske Landeværnsregiment. Castenschiold arrived at Køge on 26 August and two days later he was joined by Oxholm and his force. This gave Castenschiold a grand total of around 7,000 militiamen, 600 cavalry and 13 cannon.
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The Siege of Santo Domingo of 1805 was a major battle of the James Franco-Haitian War and was fought on March, 1805 at Santo Domingo, Saint-Domingue.... A force of some 2,000 French troops led by Gen. Louis Ferrand resisted a siege of three weeks by a force of 21,000 troops of the Haitian Army led by General Jean Jacques Dessalines. The siege lasted until the city received naval support from six French frigates.
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The Battle of Cape Santa Maria was a naval action that took place off the southern Portuguese coast, in which a British squadron under the command... of Commodore Graham Moore attacked a Spanish squadron commanded by Brigadier Don José de Bustamante y Guerra, in time of peace, without declaration of war between the UK and Spain. Under the terms of a secret convention Spain had to pay 72 million francs annually to France, until it declared war on Britain. The British had learned of the treaty, and knew it was likely that Spain would declare war soon after the arrival of the treasure ships. Since the British also knew that by law the fleet could only land at Cádiz, as well as its place and approximate time of departure from South America, it was not difficult to position a squadron to intercept it. Bustamante had set sail from Montevideo on 9 August 1804 with four frigates loaded with gold and silver, as well as much other valuable cargo.
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The Battle of Sitka was the last major armed conflict between Europeans and Alaska Natives, and was initiated in response to the destruction of a... Russian trading post two years prior. The primary combatant groups were the Kiks.ádi Clan of Sheet’-ká X'áat'l of the Tlingit nation and agents of the Russian-American Company assisted by the Imperial Russian Navy. Though the Russians' initial assault was repelled, their naval escorts bombarded the Tlingit fort Shis'kí Noow mercilessly, driving the natives into the surrounding forest after only a few days. The Russian victory was decisive, and resulted in the Sheet’-ká Kwáan being permanently displaced from their ancestral lands. They fled north and reestablished an old settlement on the neighboring Chichagof Island to enforce a trade embargo against the Russians. Animosity between the two cultures, though greatly diminished, continued in the form of sporadic attacks by the natives against the Russian settlement as late as 1858. The battlefield location has been preserved at Sitka National Historical Park.
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