SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIX. 



743 



In tlie meai; 'lifficulties had 



arisen between tlic .nd the i 



anni -b. 9 GCIK 'tified 



General Hake, the commander of the federal 

 e the operations of war, it 

 ry for him to have 

 the cities of Altona, Xeumiinster, and 



led by 1' > >;>-. The federal 



general, on Feb. 11. accede to this 



demand, but n ling this refusal and 



the protest of the federal commissioners, the 



ian troops entered Altona on Feb. r_ 



: order from Frankfort author- 



n. Hake to receive them. 



This conflict added to the irritation which had 



already exist c-1 betw-. . and Prussia on 



the one hand, and the majority of the minor 



l>y Bavaria, on the other. On 



Feb. I .rnittee of the Felc-ral Diet on 



Schleswig-Holstein ] -'ie report. The 



majority proposed: 1. That the protocol of 



London" (the tr :d no 



oblig ;- for Germany. 2. That the 



Confederation cannot recognize it, and cannot 



take it as the basis of its decisions. 3. That, 



consequently, the powers of the envoy of King 



: Diet cannot be adc. 



4. That, on the contrary, the committee be in- 

 .- possible, its report 



on the question of succession. The minority, 

 . proposed to reject this 

 motion, and instruct the committee to examine 

 the question of succession in the dnclr. 

 Sehleswig-Holstein and Lauenbnrg. The vote 

 on these motions was taken on Arti- 



:he proposition of the me, 

 were- I at articles 



3 and 4 adopted by the same majority of 9 



.;stria and 



: a demand .? chief command of 



the array of : :Vrred 



; general-in-chief of tl. 

 end that the I' nomination of 



two nevr civil commissioners for Holstein. by 



:a and Prussia. On March 3d a vo: 

 taken on the proposition made by the two 

 lowers, v. 1 for it and 3 against, 



::> a comm 



Xotwit:.-' the threats of the E:. 



Government that England would not allow the 

 allied tro - beyond the frontier of 



Schleswig, the I'. 



into Jutland, and on the next day occupied 

 Holding. Their advance was obstinately op- 

 posed by the I on March 15: 

 whole of Jutland as far as the Lynifjor.l. 

 occupied *by the allies. The most cles; 



-le of the war was near the fortifications 

 of Duppel. On March 17th the Prussians oc- 

 cupied the villages of Rackebull and Duppel. 

 On March 29th they completed the first par- 

 allels against the intrenchments. On April 

 18th,. after a furious bombardment from 118 

 lasting for several hours, the fortifications 

 of Duppel as well as the t >f Sonder- 



berg, were stormed by the Prussians, who cap- 



tured on this occasion ' The 



loss of the Danes, in 1. -ided, 



and : .s 106 officers and 5.500 men; 



while the loss of the allies arnou; 

 officers and 213 men killed, 54 officers and 

 864 men wounded, and 39 missing : 

 officers and 1,116 men. The occupation by 

 the allies of Duppel, put them in 

 of the entire mainland of the duchy of Schles- 

 wiir. On April 29th the Danes evacuated the 

 fortress of Fredericia, the only fortified place 

 which they still held in Jutland". 



The- - disposed the Danes favo- 



toward the proposal of England to hold a con- 

 ference at London consisting of the representa- 

 tives of the great powers of Europe, of the bd- 

 eden, for the purpose 



of attempting a peaceable solution of the diffi- 

 culty. The Conference (see LOXDOX COXFEH- 

 declared on May 9th in favor of an 

 armistice, which was acceded to by the repre- 

 sentatives of both the belligerent parties; but 

 before this decision was known by the govern- 

 ments of the belliger :nd acted upon, 

 a naval engagement took place, on May 9th, 

 near Heligoland, between 2 frigates and 



n the side of the Danes, and 2 Austrian 

 frigates and 2 Prussian gunboats on the other. 

 When one of the Austrian frigates caught fire, 

 it was deemed necessary by the allied fleet to 

 relinquish the combat and retreat to Heligoland. 

 The London Conference did not succeed in 

 bringing on peace, and on June 26th hostilities 

 were resumed. On June 29th the allies forced 

 a passage to the island of Alsen, which the 

 Danes were compelled to abandon in the great- 

 est haste. Jutland was placed under A 

 Prussian administration, and all the islands to 

 the west of Schleswig occupied in TI. 

 sion. The Danes had hitherto hoped for aid 

 from England, but when the debate in the 

 English Parliament clearly showed that n-_ 

 the ministry nor the opposition (the tones) in- 

 1 to go to war in their behalf, they con- 

 1 to a new suspension of hostilities, at a 

 conference held at Christian sfeld, July ISth. 

 On June 26th, a Peace Conference of plenipo- 

 tentiaries of the three powers was opened at 

 Vienna, and on August 1st the preliminaries 

 of po: i. They provide for the 



:i by Denmark of the duchies of Schles- 

 ^olstein and Lauenburg, a complete 

 pension of hostilities until Sept. 15th. the 

 to terjninate the armistie l weeks of 



previous notice, and the continuance of Jutland 

 nnder the administration of the allies until the 

 conclusion of peace. The details of the arrange- 

 ment were not agreed upon until Oct. 30th, 

 on which day the definite treaty was signed. 



The treaty contains twenty-four articles and 

 a few snppleme:. !e one simply repro- 



duces the corresponding article of the peace 

 preliminaries in which the King of Denmark 



;.U his rights to the duchi. - 

 Holstein and Lauenburg, in favor of the King 

 of Prussia and the Emperor of Austria. 



