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The Battle of Coronel in 1914 was the first naval battle of importance in the First World War, and the first general engagement fought by the Royal Navy since the Battle of Trafalgar, 1805. The battle between two squadrons, German and British, took place off Chile on November 1, 1914, near the port of Coronel, so close to the coast that people were able to watch the explosions of the battle from the shoreline.
Why, then, you will ask me, did he attack—deliberately, designedly, intentionally—a force which he could not have reasonably have hoped either to destroy or put to flight?
—First Lord Arthur Balfour at the York Minster unveiling of a memorial to Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock, 1916
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Edmundson, W. (2009). The Battle of Coronel. In: A History of the British Presence in Chile. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230101210_16
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