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North Sea Mine Decision

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

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1914

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st2 October 1914

Warfare / World War, 1st

The Admiralty decides to mine the North Sea.

Names involved

Henry Herbert Asquith Oxford, 1st

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