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Where did Jean Bart shelter in Denmark?

Copenhagen is the lecture's tentative answer because Denmark's west coast lacked a port able to receive Jean Bart's force.

Question

Did Jean Bart's squadron probably shelter at Copenhagen after escaping toward Denmark?

Short answer

Probably, because Copenhagen was the plausible Danish port for a force of that size, although the identification remains tentative.

Notes

A viewer notes the absence of a suitable Danish west-coast port and asks whether Jean Bart's squadron went to Copenhagen. Copenhagen is the expected refuge, although the answer is explicitly tentative rather than a documented port call. The reasoning is logistical: a squadron with captured ships and prisoners needed harbor capacity that the exposed western coast could not provide. Danish shelter for the French is also offered as an explanation for later Royal Navy suspicion during the Napoleonic Wars. The exchange gives viewers a likely destination and an example of using port geography without overstating the evidence.