The barracks of the fortress soon fell victim to the flames and the buildings that were mostly made out of wood were not particularly valuable, but tons of material were lost in the process.

[3] The Danish armed forces did not remain idle during this period however and managed to ambush Austrian Guard Hussars in the village of Assendrup on March 29.

[1] On April 18 the Düppeler Schanzen fell and from there, Prussian regiments flooded back to Jutland in order to storm the last bastion at Fredericia.

At first it was believed to be a staged act, but when more and more citizens of the city confirmed the statement, the move into the deserted fortress began on April 29.

[4] First the Lichtenstein hussars, then the Hessian infantry, then the King of the Belgians regiment and then Prussian engineers and Guard artillery.

However contrary to popular belief, there was no iconoclasm as the statue Der tapfere Landsoldat by the sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen remained untouched to this today.