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  • be used. This dramatically sped up loading: HMS Sabre took 2 hours to load ... to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations ...
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  • of the Mediterranean, and assigned to HMS Victory in May 1803. He joined ... every man will do his duty" flying from HMS Victory]] ...
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  • wait until September 15, before his ship HMS Victory was ready to sail. ... HMS Victory made its way to Gibraltar for repairs carrying on board ...
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  • In 1770, at the age of 16, he joined HMS Hunter as an able seaman, ... few days later, he was appointed to serve on HMS Belle Poule as its master ...
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  • the Continental Navy. However, through his victory over the HMS Serapis with ... instead, leading to a famous encounter with HMS Drake, a 20 gun Royal Navy sloop. ...
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  • controlled Lake Champlain, and a naval victory there forced a large British ... the war. Canadians remember the war as a victory in avoiding conquest by ...
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  • latter for Turkish involvement in the war. Victory in the Dardenelles helped ... task force, including the British battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, bombarded ...
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  • Brest in Brittany fired on the British brig HMS Childers.HMS Childers was ... for further combat. Both sides claimed victory; despite losing seven ships ...
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  • or storage depots. Of these, all but HMS Victory were sunk or scrapped by 1957. ... the Chilean Huáscar. Like museum ships, HMS Victory is open to the public ...
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  • wartime leadership greatly aided the Ally's victory. ... Battle of Omdurman on September 2, 1898, a victory made possible by the massive ...
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  • Some Argentinians occupied South Georgia March 19, 1982. Initially ... Margaret Thatcher and ensuring its victory in the 1983 general election ...
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  • and returned to port. Both sides claimed victory. The British had lost more ... other ships were badly damaged, such as HMS Lion and SMS Seydlitz. At ...
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  • the torpedoes, full speed ahead." Victory at Mobile Bay helped to ... captured during the cruise of the Essex by HMS Phoebe in Valparaiso Bay, ...
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  • |result=British Pyrrhic victory |combatant2=[[Image:New England blank ... In the early predawn, around 4 a.m., a sentry on board HMS Lively ...
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  • |result=British razing of Washington, D.C. and British victory ... lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax ...
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  • of Detroit in August 1812, a major victory for the British. Tecumseh ... This victory was reversed a little over a year later, however, as ...
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  • were returned to England on the cruiser HMS Orion for final burial at ... *1920 The Long Road to Victory *1921-2 A History of the Great War ...
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  • The sweetness of the victory was short-lived. Despite the War of 1812 ... lost when a convoy of British ships led by HMS Fantome sank en route to Halifax ...
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  • The enormous wealth gained from the Bengal treasury after its victory ... British East India Company. The British victory both eliminated French competition ...
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  • Wilkes, intercepted the British mail packet HMS Trent and removed two Confederate ... Mason and Slidell were released from Fort Warren, where the HMS Rinaldo ...
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