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Upon the outbreak of war, the British Royal Navy was deployed globally, whilst the Imperial German Navy was concentrated in two areas - Home Waters and Tsingtao, the home port of the crack East Asia Cruiser Squadron which, under the command of Admiral von Spee contained some of Germany's most modern cruisers. As Spee made his way to the Chilean port of Valparaiso, he met the British 4th Cruiser Squadron which had been ordered to engage and defeat the German force. This resulted in the battle of Coronel where the antiquated British warships proved no match for Spee's modern cruisers. It was the first naval defeat suffered by the Royal Navy in over 100 years. When news reached London, panic reigned and two ships HMS Inflexible and Invincible were sent to lead the force against Spee. When bad weather delayed the German arrival, Spee knew that he had to stand and fight, unaware that amongst the ships opposing him were two modern battlecruisers which outclassed any of his own squadron's ships. Given the presence of Inflexible and Invincible, the result of the battle had an inevitable outcome and after several hours hard combat, Spee's ships were defeated.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Military history

• Full title: Coronel and Falklands 1914
• Subtitle: Duel in the South Atlantic
• Author: Michael McNally
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9781849086745
• ISBN: 1849086745
• ID: 01225725
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 314 g
• Dimensions: 247 × 187 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. October 2012

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