The Battle of the Falkland Islands
by Henry Edmund Harvey Spencer-Cooper
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About this eBook
- Author
- Spencer-Cooper, Henry Edmund Harvey, 1884-1968
- Title
- The Battle of the Falkland Islands, Before and After
- Credits
- Produced by John Campbell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- D501: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: World War I (1914-1918)
- Subject
- Falkland Islands, Battle of the, 1914
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 50265
- Release Date
- October 21, 2015
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — CONTENTS — MAPS AND CHARTS
- 2.INTRODUCTION — Part I EXPLOITS OFF SOUTH AMERICA
- 3.CHAPTER I GERMAN MEN-OF-WAR IN FOREIGN SEAS
- 4.CHAPTER II THE POLICY OF ADMIRAL COUNT VON SPEE
- 5.CHAPTER III BRITISH MEN-OF-WAR OFF SOUTH AMERICA
- 6.CHAPTER IV LIFE AT SEA IN 1914
- 7.CHAPTER V THE SINKING OF THE "CAP TRAFALGAR"
- 8.CHAPTER VI THE ACTION OFF CORONEL
- 9.CHAPTER VII CONCENTRATION
- 10.CHAPTER VIII POSSIBILITIES AND PROBABILITIES — Part II THE BATTLE OF THE FALKLANDS
- 11.CHAPTER IX AWAY SOUTH
- 12.CHAPTER X ENEMY IN SIGHT
- 13.CHAPTER XI THE BATTLE-CRUISER ACTION
- 14.CHAPTER XII THE END OF THE "LEIPZIG"
- 15.CHAPTER XIII THE SINKING OF THE "NÜRNBERG"
- 16.CHAPTER XIV AFTERMATH
- 17.CHAPTER XV THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE SAILOR IN ACTION
- 18.CHAPTER XVI VON SPEE'S AIMS AND HOPES
- 19.CHAPTER XVII THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
- 20.CHAPTER XVIII THE LAST OF THE "DRESDEN" — Part III OFFICIAL DISPATCHES
- 21.I DISPATCH OF THE ACTION OF H.M.S. "CARMANIA"
- 22.II DISPATCH OF THE ACTION FOUGHT OFF CORONEL
- 23.III OFFICIAL DISPATCH OF VICE-ADMIRAL COUNT VON SPEE
- 24.IV DISPATCH OF THE BATTLE OF THE FALKLAND ISLANDS — ADMIRAL STURDEE'S DISPATCH — MESSAGES OF CONGRATULATION. — GALLANT SERVICES "KENT" SERGEANT'S BRAVE DEED — LIST OF BRITISH CASUALTIES AT THE FALKLAND ISLANDS
- 25.THE "DRESDEN": ACTION WITH "KENT" AND "GLASGOW"
- 26.APPENDIX
- 27.INDEX — FOOTNOTES:
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