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Battle of the Falkland Islands (1914)
On the WWI map as “The Falklands”
8 Dec 1914 — Von Spee’s cruiser squadron, having destroyed a British force at Coronel, is caught coaling by battlecruisers and annihilated. The oceans belong to the Allies; Germany’s surface war outside the North Sea is over in four months.
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- WWI outside Europe (chapter 9 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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