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Battlecruiser Sailing Deadline Enforced

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 1st. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1914

John Arbuthnot Fisher11 November 1914

Devonport · Warfare / World War, 1st

Fisher refuses to delay the South Atlantic force and requires the battlecruisers to sail even with workmen still aboard.

Names involved

John Arbuthnot Fisher

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