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After a short blossoming it lost importance quickly, and was dissolved in 1729. In 1732 it was refounded as Asiatische Compagnie, yet in 1772 it lost its monopoly. During its heydays, the Danish and Swedish East India Company imported more tea than the British East India Company - and smuggled 90 % of it into into Britain, where it could be sold at a huge profit.
During the Napoleonic Wars, in 1801 and again in 1807, the British navy attacked Copenhagen in the Battle of Copenhagen (1807). As a consequence of the last attack, Denmark lost its entire fleet, all its colonies and the island of Helgoland; British control of the seas spelled the end of the Danish East India Company.
See also: Tranquebar, History of DenmarkAncient Denmark See also: Neolithic and Bronze Age People lived in what is today Denmark more than 100,000 years ago, but they were likely forced to leave for a time because of the ice cap that covered the land for some of the intervening time during the, History of IndiaPrehistory The prehistory of India goes back to the old Stone age ( Palaeolithic). While India lies at the eastern limit of the hand axe distribution, there are numerous Acheulean findspots. Hathnora, in the Narmada Valley has produced hominid remains of.