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unusual facts about naval battle



Carl Olof Cronstedt

The naval battle is the greatest naval battle in the Baltic sea history.

First Texas Navy

However, in the first naval battle of the war involving Texas, rebels boarded the American owned ship San Felipe and the steamer Laura on September 1, 1835 and then proceeded to attack the Mexican treasury vessel Correo de Mexico off Brazoria, which was taken as a prize to New Orleans.

Jean Thurel

One of Thurel's sons was a corporal and a veteran in the same company; he died at the Battle of the Saintes, a naval battle that occurred on 12 April 1782 off the coast of Dominica, West Indies during the American campaign.

Neduntheevu

A naval battle was fought off the coast of the island in 2008 during the Sri-Lankan Civil War.


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1653 in England

8–10 August - Battle of Scheveningen: The final naval battle of the First Anglo-Dutch War is fought, between the fleets of the Commonwealth and the United Provinces off the Texel; the English navy gains a tactical victory over the Dutch fleet.

Action of 16 March 1917

The Action of 16 March 1917 was a naval battle in which the German auxiliary cruiser Leopard was engaged and sunk by the British Armed boarding steamer HMS Dundee and the cruiser HMS Achilles.

Battle of Abukir

The Battle of the Nile, also known as "Battle of Abukir Bay", the naval battle fought on 1 August 1798

Battle of Cape Cherchell

The Battle of Cape Cherchell was a naval battle between the Nationalist heavy cruiser Baleares and the Spanish Republican Navy light cruisers Libertad and Méndez Núñez in the Spanish Civil War, several miles north of the Algerian city of Cherchell.

Battle of Holmengrå

The Battle of Holmengrå (Norwegian: Slaget ved Holmengrå) was a naval battle fought on 12 November 1139 near the island Holmengrå south of Hvaler, between the forces of the child kings Sigurd Haraldsson and Inge Haraldsson on the one side, and on the other side the pretender Sigurd Slembe and his ally King Magnus the Blind (by Sigurd's claim his nephew).

Battle of Mytilene

Battle of Mytilene (1457), naval battle between the Roman Catholic Church under Ludovico Trevisan and the Ottoman Empire

Battle of Pharos

The Battle of Pharos was a naval battle between the Greek colony Pharos allied with Dionysius the Elder of Syracuse and the Illyrian Liburnians, which took place in 383/4 BC.The Illyrians of Zadar, the Iadasinoi, became allies of the natives of Hvar and the leaders of an eastern Adriatic coast coalition in the fight against the Greek colonizers.

Battle of the Bay

Battle of Hudson's Bay, a historical naval battle in Hudson's Bay in Canada

Battle of Tonkin River

The Battle of Tonkin River was a major naval battle fought in northern Vietnam between the pirates of Shap Ng-tsai and the British Royal Navy with aid from the Qing navy and the Tonkinese.

Cornelis Jol

While attempting to capture the Spanish treasure fleet, he and Jan Lichthart engaged in a naval battle with Spanish admiral Don Carlos Ibarra off the coast of Cuba.

Cornelius Anckarstjerna

In the naval battle near Møn on 1 June 1677, he commanded the ship Kalmar castle with 74 cannons.

Edmund Knyvet

Knyvet's father was slain in a naval battle near Brest on 10 August 1512, and four months later Knyvet's mother died in childbirth between 13 and 21 December 1512.

Hendrick Lonck

Having made admiral by 1628, Lonck, in the service of the Dutch West Indies Company, joined Admiral Piet Hein in the Battle in the Bay of Matanzas, a naval battle during the Eighty Years' War in which a Dutch squadron was able to defeat and capture a Spanish treasure fleet.

James Dutton, 6th Baron Sherborne

Arthur Brandreth Scott Dutton CB CMG RN (1876–1932) participated in the Battle of Jutland, the greatest naval battle of World War I.

Joseph Broussard

In the Action of 8 June 1755, a naval battle off Cape Race, Newfoundland, on board the French ships Alcide and Lys were found 10,000 scalping knives for Acadians and Indians serving under Chief Jean-Baptiste Cope and Acadian Beausoleil as they continue to fight Father Le Loutre's War.

Knocking Our Own Ting

Knocking Our Own Ting is an article length satire written by Evan X Hyde discussing the Battle of St. George's Caye, a naval battle off the coast of Belize occurring in 1798.

Qazim Koculi

He disobeyed a military order in 1909 during a naval battle in Preveza by refusing to surrender to the Italian Navy.

Richard de Vere, 11th Earl of Oxford

In May 1416 Oxford was invested with the Order of the Garter, and in that year sailed with the fleet to relieve Harfleur, taking part in the naval battle at the mouth of the Seine on 15 August.

Ruse of war

Prior to a naval battle with King Eumenes II of Pergamon, Hannibal sent a herald with a message for the opposing commander.

Silda

Battle of Silda, an 1810 naval battle between the United Kingdom and the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway

St Clement, Cornwall

There are two notable monuments: to Samuel Thomas (d. 1796), the work of John Bacon, 1799, has two allegorical figures; the other is to Rear-Admiral Robert Carthew Reynolds, from the studio of Micali, Livorno, and shows a young soldier and two women, the soldier points to a monument with a naval battle, above is the portrait medallion.

The Short Victorious War

The tactical situation faced by Honor and Admiral Sarnow—having to defend themselves against a much larger force because their opponents have tricked the officer in overall command into taking most of his forces elsewhere—bears more than a little resemblance to the situation faced by Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid in the largest naval battle of the 20th century, the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Wilfrid Patterson

He participated in the naval battle that sunk the German battleship Bismarck.