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secret information of this plan, and Sir Hyde Parker was 
sent, in 1801, with Nelson as second in command, to demand 
the withdrawal of the Danes from the league. This demand 
was refused, and Parker immediately sent Nelson to enforce 
the request by the bombardment of Copenhagen. The 
battle was a desperate one, but the Danes were at last 
compelled to yield, after nearly all their fleet had been 
destroyed. Denmark was thus forced to conclude an armis- 
tice, which gave the British fleet entrance to the Baltic. 
A little later, the death of the Czar of Russia broke up the 
sonfederation. 
This blow, together with the surrender of the French army 
in Egypt, which took place about this time, made Napoleon 
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willing to conclude a peace. "The treaty was signed at 
Amiens in 1802, Britain retained Ceylon, which had been 
captured during the war, and agreed to surrender Malta, 
while France on her part agreed to evacuate Egypt. 
Napoleon, however, had agreed to the treaty of Amiens 
only that he might have time to build a new navy and to 
form his plans to strike a erushing blow at Great Britain, 
He had made himself emperor of the French, and now felt 
that he was in a position to carry out his cherished scheme 
>f the invasion of England. For this purpose he mustered 
one hundred and thirty thousand men at Boulogne, “ Let 
us be masters of the Channel for six hours,” he said, “and