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Copenhagenization refers to the practice of confiscating the warships of a defeated enemy. It first occurred when the British fleet under Admiral Gambier defeated the Dano-Norwegian fleet in the Second Battle of Copenhagen in 1807. After the British Royal Navy confiscated the Dano-Norwegian Navy, the practice of confiscating all (or most) of the ships of a defeated enemy became more common and would be expressed by the term Copenhagenize. In 1830, the American author Richard Emmons published an ''Epic poem on the late war of 1812'', the ''The Fredoniad, or Independence preserved'' in which he wrote of the merits and risks of independence:
The term would later be used by Justin Winsor in his ''Narrative and critical history of America'' (1888) where he described the outfitting of independent vessels to warfare being done somewhat covertly, in order to avoid the vessels being "Copenhagenized at once by the invincible British Navy" at the outbreak of hostilities. Also, in the 1881 ''Political Science, Political Economy, and the Political History of the United States'', John J. Lalor, editor, wrote:
In 1940, after the Fall of France, the British destroyed the warships of neutral Vichy stationed in the ports of Oran and Dakar with the Attack on Mers-el-Kébir, fearing that the French ships would fall into German hands. == References == 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Copenhagenization (naval)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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