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Updated: May 17, 2025
"The wind is fair, and we have all day. I am ready." That was the council of war and its decision. Tordenskjold gave the signal to clear for action, and sailed in at the head of his handful of ships. The inlet to the harbor of Dynekilen is narrow and crooked, winding between reefs and rocky steeps quite two miles, and only in spots more than four hundred feet wide. Halfway in was a strong battery.
A fuse had been laid to an open keg of powder, and the fire was sputtering within an inch of it when Lieutenant Tönder plucked it out, smothered it between thumb and forefinger, and threw it through the nearest port-hole. There were two hundred barrels of powder in the ship. Tordenskjold had kept his word to the King. Not as much as a yawl of the Dynekilen fleet was left to the enemy.
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