The Battle of Koge
The Battle of Koge was fought between Danish militia troops and British army forces besieging Copenhagen. The battle ended in an overwhelming British victory.

Denmark-Norway tried to remain neutral during the Napoleonic Wars, but Britain feared that the large Danish-Norwegian fleet might fall under French control and therefore issued an ultimatum to the Danish-Norwegian government: either the fleet had to be handed over to Britain as security, or the British would attack and seize it by force. When the demand was rejected, British troops landed at Vedbaek on 16 August 1807 and began the siege of Copenhagen.

Lieutenant General Castenschiold was ordered to raise a free corps and relieve the capital. His forces were concentrated around Roskilde and Lejre, while General Oxholm was sent south to activate the Southern Zealand Landwehr Regiment. Castenschiold moved to Koge on 26 August, and Oxholm arrived with his troops on 28 August. In all, Castenschiold had around 7,000 militiamen, 600 cavalry and 13 guns.

The British headquarters outside Copenhagen knew of the mobilization and on 27 August ordered General Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington, to seek out and defeat the Danish militia. The British soldiers were vastly better trained and routed the Danish force. The battle is often called the wooden-shoe battle because the poorly trained and badly equipped Danish peasants threw away their wooden shoes while fleeing from the disciplined and well-equipped British soldiers.