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Civil War Echoes: Graf Spee 1939
75 years ago today, the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee fought a British squadron off the River Plate on South America’s coast. After an hour of battle, the Graf Spee’s captain, Hans Langsdorff, ran into neutral Montevideo harbor for … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, Ties to the War
Tagged CSS Alabama, Graf Spee, Graf Spree, Hans Langsdorff, Raphael Semmes
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Strategy Afloat: Commerce Raiding
November 6 is an important date in the history of one of the Civil War’s most successful commerce raiders, the CSS Shenandoah. This day 150 years ago she took the second of her 38 victims; exactly a year later she … Continue reading
Civil War Echoes: Erich Raeder’s Navy
Raphael Semmes published his Memoirs of Service Afloat During The War Between The States in 1869, providing a far-ranging discussion of the Confederate naval war and his role in it as a commerce raider, squadron commander, and field commander. This … Continue reading
Posted in Navies, Ties to the War, Weapons
Tagged Bernhard Rogge, Bismarck, Confederate Navy, CSS Alabama, CSS Florida, CSS Shenandoah, Erich Raeder, Germany, Graf Spee, Kaiser Wilhelm, Norway, Raphael Semmes, Tirpitz
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