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Tranquebar handed back to Denmark

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Tranquebar handed back to Denmark
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Britain returned Tranquebar (Tharangambadi), occupied since 1808 during the Napoleonic Wars, to Danish rule on 20 September 1815.

During the Napoleonic Wars Britain occupied the Danish settlements in India, including Tranquebar on the Tamil coast, in 1801 to 1802 and again from 1808. After the Treaty of Kiel was signed on 14 January 1814, the British government in Madras received orders in June 1815 to surrender Tranquebar to the Danes. The formal transfer took place on 20 September 1815, when the newly arrived Danish governor Gerhard Sievers Bille took command. Denmark kept the settlement until it sold it to Britain in 1845.

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