The Danes, therefore, ranged themselves on the French side, with results that were to prove fatal to the welfare of their kingdom.
Thus the bargain which Bernadotte drove with the allies leagued Denmark against them, and thereby hindered the liberation of North Germany.

But, such is the irony of fate, the transfer of Norway from Denmark to Sweden has had a permanence in which Napoleon's territorial arrangements have been signally lacking.
Bernadotte landed at Stralsund with 24,000 men, on May 18th.

But the organization of his troops for the campaign was so slow that he could send no effective help to the Cossacks and patriots at Hamburg.

His seeming lethargy at once aroused the Czar's suspicions.

This the Swedish Prince Royal speedily detected; and, on hearing of the armistice, he feared that another Tilsit would be the result.