Naval battles continued.
- First Battle of Coronel
- This battle started on November 1, 1914 off the coast of Chile by the city named Coronel.
- Gloswgow, a ship from the Royal Navy (Great Britian), commanded by Cradock and Leipzig another ship, from the German Kaiserliche Marine Force(Germany) commaned by Spee met.
- Those were the ships and crap.
- Cradock fought fiercly and even managed to cost Spee's ships half ther ammunition.
- But, Cradock and 1,600 men still died in the end.
- Glosgow and Otranto, both escaped letting either side complete it's goal.
- The battle was officially over at 10.15 pm that night.
- Germany won.. basically..
- The Battle of the Falkland Islands.
- It all started on December 8, 1914.
- When they started firing, Spee (A guy from Germany.) realised that he was in trouble.
- Spee tried sending his light cruisers away, but Sturdee (A guy from great britian), commander of the royal navy, follwed with a few of his own ships.
- Sturdee had planned for this and let invincible, Inflexible, and Canarvon stay to fight tha rmoured cruisers while the rest set off for the light cruisers.
- In the end, Dresden (german ship) was the only ship to get away.
- Finally, Great Britian destroyed the German fleet and the Leipzig.
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