24 October-4 November 1918: The German Maritime Warfare Command (Seekriegsleitung) ordered, on 24 October, the High Seas Fleet to sail for one final, decisive, possibly suicidal battle against the British Grand Fleet; when the order reached Wilhelmshaven on 28-29 October, sailors mutinied; the sortie was cancelled on 30 October, but when the mutiny reached Kiel it sparked a general revolution.
Lest we forget.
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