New Älvsborg Fortress
Seventeenth-century island sea fortress at the river mouth, once besieged by a Danish-Norwegian fleet.
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This guide to New Älvsborg Fortress, the island stronghold at the mouth of Gothenburg's river, drops you into July seventeen nineteen, when a Danish-Norwegian fleet under the admiral Peter Tordenskjold anchored off its walls. It follows Captain Johan Abraham Lillie, a garrison of a few hundred men, and a surrender that had just happened up the coast at Marstrand. Best heard out on the ramparts, looking across the water toward the nearby islets.
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