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Loss of Aboukir Hogue and Cressy

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

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Chronological records

1914

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill22 September 1914

North Sea · Warfare / World War, 1st

The sinking of three British cruisers by German submarine U-9 exposes the growing danger from submarines.

Names involved

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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