Battle of Little Belt

{{Short description|1535 naval battle}}

{{Infobox military conflict

|conflict=Battle of Little Belt

|partof=Count's Feud

|image=

|caption=

|date=16 June 1535

|place=Little Belt, Denmark

|result= Allied victory

|combatant1=File:Flag of the Free City of Lübeck.svg Free City of Lübeck & the Hanseatic League

|combatant2=22px Sweden
22px Denmark
{{flag|Prussia|1750|23px}}

|commander1=Unknown

|commander2=Måns Svensson Some
Peder Skram

|strength1=10 ships

|strength2=Est. 20 ships

|casualties1= 1 ship burnt
9 ships captured

|casualties2= Negligible

}}

{{Campaignbox Count's Feud}}

The Battle of Little Belt was a naval battle between a combined Swedish/Danish/Prussian fleet and a fleet from Lübeck on 16 June 1535, during the Count's Feud. The battle ended in a heavy defeat for Lübeck.{{Citation |last=Agius |first=Christine |title=Neutrality as a Social Democratic project: tracing the origins of Swedish neutrality, 1814–1945 |date=2012-04-01 |work=The Social Construction of Swedish Neutrality |pages=60–85 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719071522.003.0004 |access-date=2024-02-23 |publisher=Manchester University Press}}{{Cite web |last=Åselius |first=Gunnar |date=2013-11-27 |title=Swedish Armed Forces |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199791279-0005 |access-date=2024-02-23 |website=Oxford Bibliographies Online Datasets}}{{Cite journal |last=Smith |first=Reginald A. |date=July 1925 |title=Förhistorisk Nordisk Ornamentik. Av Nils Å Berg: Föreningen Urds Skrifter III. 8¼ × 5½; pp. xxvi + 154. Uppsala: J. A. Lindblads Förlag. 1925. |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581500006909 |journal=The Antiquaries Journal |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=313–313 |doi=10.1017/s0003581500006909 |issn=0003-5815|url-access=subscription }}