The Promised Land
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Denmark, 1755. Captain Ludvig Kahlen sets out to conquer a Danish heath reputed to be uncultivable, with an impossible goal: to establish a colony in the name of the king, in exchange for a royal title. A single-minded ambition that the ruthless lord of the region will relentlessly seek to put down. Kahlen's fate hangs in the balance: will his endevours bring him wealth and honour, or cost him his life...?
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A Danish officer of Mecklenburg background whose mid-eighteenth-century proposals helped advance attempts to cultivate the heathlands of Jutland.
Open profile →King of Denmark and Norway from 1746 to 1766, whose government promoted the cultivation and settlement of Jutland’s heathlands.
Open profile →The Danish peninsula containing the heathlands targeted for cultivation and settlement.
Open profile →A major heathland area in central Jutland associated with eighteenth-century Danish land-improvement and settlement efforts.
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