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Heligoland

1807
 Britain seized Heligoland, an island in the North Sea ruled by Danes, as a forward base to break Napoleon’s economic blockade. In 2017 Jan Ruger authored “Heligoland: Britain, Germany and the Struggle for the North Sea.”
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1841 Aug
 German poet Hoffman von Fallersleben (1798-1874) authored his poem "Das Lied der Deutschen" on the island of Heligoland. Its third stanza became the lyrics for the German national anthem.
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1890
 Britain ceded the island of Heligoland to Germany in exchange for a free hand in the former slave-trading sultanate of Zanzibar.
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