Copenhagening as a repeated naval precedent

The verb rests on repetition: Copenhagen was the setting for two battles and a wider history of British naval operations. The first and second battles belong together in this explanation of the term. The Royal Navy had repeatedly used aggressive action in the region, and the closing judgment is that Denmark should have learned from the first encounter. Copenhagening therefore names a strategic precedent for forcibly neutralizing an exposed fleet rather than a label for the 1807 bombardment alone.