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Duty and Daring in the Heyday of Empire
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Friday, 29 August 2014
A Marooning Scandal in the Royal Navy, 1807
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One tends to think of “marooning” – abandoning a seaman alone on an uninhabited island – as being a punishment associated with buccaneers a...
Tuesday, 26 August 2014
Imperial German Colonial Aspirations, 1902
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The worldwide German colonial presence in 1914 was to be wiped out – and essentially forgotten – in the years following the Great War. ...
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Friday, 22 August 2014
The Varyag at Chemulpo 1904: A last stand and a strange afterlife
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In my blog last week I described the heroic last stand of the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Zenta in 1914. My present subject is an equally her...
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Thursday, 21 August 2014
August 1813: HMS Pelican vs. USS Argus
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Frigate vs. Frigate - USS United States vs. HMS Macedonian Oct 25th 1812 The War of 1812 at sea is often thought of in terms of epi...
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Friday, 15 August 2014
The Battle of Antivari 1914: a heroic last-stand
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Contemporary postcard: Ausro-Hungarian cruiser Zenta under fire from French Dreadnought Courbet On 16 August 1914, at the opening of Wo...
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Tuesday, 12 August 2014
1914: Dogs of War
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The famous Punch cartoon of 1914 sums it up perfectly In recent days, with the 100 th anniversary of the opening of World War 1 so...
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