During the persecution the Danish troops were disordered and divided into smal clusters.
He deployed Danish troops in the 2003 Iraq war, arguing it was indeed a battle between good and evil.
Danish and Estonian troops were also involved in the initial assault.
But Danish troops are also deployed to other parts of Afghanistan.
The fear was that this would have brought Danish troops right back to same frontier that they had occupied prior to the war.
In March that year the last Danish troops left the province, and have never since returned as belligerents.
This caused him to order a general retreat to Stoutrup, and the Danish troops began to pursue.
They defended it against an unsuccessful attack by 800 besieging Danish troops.
Danish troops were rotated every six months, and each contingent had a slightly different composition of units and men.
Nevertheless, in the early morning hours, a few Danish troops engaged the German army, suffering losses of 16 dead and 20 wounded.