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Graf Spee

Name: Graf Spee – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

3Records

1939Date range

3Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1939

Neville Chamberlain30 September 1939

Warfare / World War, 2nd

The Admiral Graf Spee sinks the steamship Clement

Henry HarwoodDecember 1939

Montevideo · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Ajax & Achilles shadow the Graf Spee into the neutral port of Montevideo

Charles WoodhouseDecember 1939

Montevideo · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Ajax & Achilles shadow the Graf Spee into the neutral port of Montevideo

Names involved

Charles WoodhouseHenry HarwoodNeville Chamberlain

Provenance

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