Qualla: Battle of Lundby https://qualla.com/battle-of-lundby en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:35 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Battle of Lundby https://qualla.com/battle-of-lundby Battle of Lundby: Introduction https://qualla.com/battle-of-lundby/ Local farmers offered to show them a safer path. Lieutenant-Colonel Beck refused. His company would not, he declared, be led by a farmer, and the straight road was the shortest. On 3 July 1864, 160 Danish soldiers of the Fifth Company ran cheering down a long, open hillside toward seventy Prussians sheltered behind an earth dike at the southern edge of Lundby. Three volleys from breech-loading rifles stopped them twenty meters short. In minutes, 98 Danes were killed, wounded, or captured. The Prussians suffered three wounded. It was the last battle of the Second Schleswig War, and it distilled everything that had gone wrong for Denmark into a single, terrible charge.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/h/battle-of-lundby-wp/u4ph-battle-of-lundby-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Battle of Lundby: A War Already Lost https://qualla.com/battle-of-lundby/ By the summer of 1864, Denmark's position was beyond recovery. The army had been crushed at Dybbol in April and displaced from Als Island days later. The remaining forces had withdrawn north of the Limfjorden and were being evacuated from Frederikshavn. The war over the duchies o...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/h/battle-of-lundby-wp/u4ph-battle-of-lundby-a-war-already-lost.mp3 0:06 2 full Battle of Lundby: Downhill Into Fire https://qualla.com/battle-of-lundby/ On 1 July, Prussian scouting units pushed north from Hobro. Beck took his Fifth Company south toward Gunderup, where he found a Prussian column stopped in Lundby. His scouts were spotted. The Prussians, about 70 of their 124 men, took cover behind an earth dike at the town's sout...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/4/p/h/battle-of-lundby-wp/u4ph-battle-of-lundby-downhill-into-fire.mp3 0:06 3 full Battle of Lundby: The Arithmetic of Disaster https://qualla.com/battle-of-lundby/ The numbers are stark: 32 Danish soldiers killed, 44 wounded, 20 captured, two missing. Three Prussians wounded. The Danes had not even held a two-to-one numerical advantage, far short of the three-to-one ratio military doctrine considered the minimum for a frontal assault. Their...

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