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Belgian Coast Naval Bombardment

Name: Belgian Coast Naval Bombardment – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

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

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1914Date range

1Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1914

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill18 October 1914

Belgian Coast · Warfare / World War, 1st

Royal Navy vessels bombard German forces on the Belgian coast while supporting the Allied flank.

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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