- TIL after the loss of Schleswig-Holstein to Prussia in 1864, the Danish king Christian IX secretly offered that the whole of Denmark join the German confederation, if he would retain Schleswig and Holstein. This wasn't known until 2010, when the current queen gave access to the royal archives. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War#Aftermath 5 comments europe
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- Reasons of State: Why Didn’t Denmark Sell Greenland? · Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Greenland 285 comments
- War leads to war: A brief history of the past three hundred years | by Tareq Alkhatib | Medium https://medium.com/@alkhatib_tareq/war-leads-to-war-a-brief-history-of-the-past-three-hundred-years-592a64518e0f 3 comments
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