Sunday, November 2, 2014

The Explorers' Club, № CDXVI

Operation AXIOM: The World War
1 November 1914: The Battle of Coronel—the defeat of a British Royal Navy squadron by the German East Asia Squadron off the coast of Chile; British casualties: over fifteen hundred souls lost & two ships sunk, H.M.S. Monmouth & H.M.S. Good Hope; German casualties: three wounded.









Lest we forget.

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