In 1807, with France ascendant and demanding that neutral nations choose a side, Britain feared that Denmark would join France and, for the second time in six years, prepared a fleet to strike preemptively. This time the people of Copenhagen would suffer the consequences.
The “Murder at the Regatta” was a story of jealousy, passion, and some say even madness that shocked and fascinated the nation, and changed the very nature of how murder was seen and prosecuted in the United States.