The siege of Dannemarksnagore took place in 1707 at the Danish colony of Dannemarksnagore in Bengal, between the Danes and a local Mughal governor.
After owing money to local Mughal merchants, the Danish factory of Dannemarksnagore was besieged by a Mughal governor until the Danish governor, Jacob Panck, gave gifts to the Mughal governor, making him lift the siege and subsequently signing a ceasefire.
The Danish factory of Dannemarksnagore was built following the Dano-Mughal War in 1699. The Factory was expanded in the 1700's with warehouses and a tall curtain wall, and was supplied with money and resources from the Danish colony of Tranquebar. However, the factory's initial governors were corrupt and traded privately on their own accounts, causing economic difficulties in the colony. As such, when Governor Johan Joachim Michelsen died in 1706, he had left a large debt to local Mughal merchants, which they now requested the new governor, Jacob Panck, to pay. Concurrently, the faujdar of Hooghly now demanded larger gifts from the Danes and raised the tariffs.
Subsequently, Panck started to fortify the factory, taking some Portuguese refugees in the Danish East India Company's service, before declining to repay Michelsen's debt until the colony got money from Tranquebar. Furthermore, Panck replaced a defensive earth bastion with a tall stone fortification, which he equipped with six cannons, and sought to put both personnel and the building in the best possible defensive state, despite the factory being in poor condition.
The local Mughal governor saw this as a dangerous escalation, and numerous other Danish wrongdoings now became relevant, to which the governor started to besiege the factory. However, the siege was lifted after Panck agreed to give the Mughal governor some gifts, and a ceasefire was established.
In August 1707, Christen Brun-Lundegaard came from Tranquebar with two yachts, carrying money and goods with him. Brun-Lundegaard began negotiating with Michelsen's creditors, while Panck used the new resources to improve the factory, and expanded the colony's territory by acquiring Tellingapore (present-day Telenipara) in 1708. Nonetheless, Panck was replaced by Wolff Ravn in 1709, who dismantled everything Panck had built up, eventually leading to a Danish evacuation of the factory altogether in 1714.