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	Battle of Cape Spada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The naval Battle of Cape Spada took place on 19 July 1940 during World War II in the Mediterranean Sea off Cape Spada, the north-western extremity of Crete.
		The battle occurred when an Allied squadron patrolling the Aegean encountered two Italian cruisers transferring from Tripoli to Leros, at that time an Italian colony in the Dodecanese Islands.
		In the running battle which followed, Bartolomeo Colleoni was hard hit by Sydney and after a shell hit the rudder (at 09:23) she stopped dead in the water.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Spada (350 words)

	Battle of Cape Spartivento - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Cape Spartivento, known as the Battle of Cape Teulada in Italy, was a minor engagement between naval forces of the British Royal Navy and the Italian Regia Marina on 27 November 1940, during World War II.
		The battle ended in a draw but served to convince the Italians to continue attacks of this nature, which ended disastrously a few months later during the battle of Cape Matapan.
		The British heavy cruiser Berwick was hit at 12:22 by a single 8-inch shell on her Y Turret which was knocked out, killing 7 of her complement, and a second hit at 12:35 which did little damage.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Cape_Spartivento (902 words)

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		If Great Britain could have decisively won the battle for dominance in the Mediterranean (or of the skies over it) Italy and Germany could not have maintained their forces in North Africa, and Rommel would have become irrelevant.
		Battle of Cape Spada -- 1940, and two raiding Italian cruisers fight a daylight battle with British destroyers and an Australian cruiser.
		Cape Matapan-- When the Italians try to disrupt British convoys to Greece, the stage is set for a fleet action.
	members.tripod.com /fireonthewaters/maren.htm (940 words)

	Bon Homme Richard Collector War Ship (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Bon Homme Richard- John Paul Jones, whom many consider the father of the American Navy, took command of the Bon Homme Richard in 1779.
		Bon Homme Richard was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.
		On September 23, 1779, the Bon Homme Richard engaged the English frigate Serapis near Cape Flamborough in the North Sea.
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	Military.com Content
		Taken together, the battles of Ruweisat Ridge and Alam el Halfa were the real strategic turning point of the war in North Africa.
		Montgomery used the time after the Battle of Alam el Halfa to rest and train his troops, integrate the new American tanks he had received, and carefully plan his counterattack.
		From the moment the Allies landed, the campaign in Northwest Africa and the race for Tunis was a logistical battle.
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	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Destroyer HMS Janus of the J class
		December, whilst on convoy duties in the Mediterranean the destroyer HMS Hyperion was mined off Cape Bon on the 22nd of that month.
		The destroyer HMS Ilex attempted to tow the ill fated destroyer, but failed and the vessel had to be abandoned, Janus was tasked to sink her.
		In March Janus was involved in the battle of Cape Matapan, whilst a unit of the 14th DD Flotilla, under Captain Mack aboard HMS Jervis.
	uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4450.html (768 words)

	Cape & Islands Harbormasters Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		WOODS HOLE - (3/28/05) Cape hook fishermen make up the majority of fishermen in New England who catch cod on long lines of baited hooks.They know firsthand that the news is not good because they've seen their cod catches drop precipitously from nearly 3 million pounds in 1999 to just 307,000 pounds in 2003.
		Chatham ended up as the only harbor on the Cape to be dredged by the Army Corps of Engineers this year.
		The pair were apparently fishing two miles off Eastham shores in Cape Cod Bay when they noticed thick fl smoke emanating from the engine room of the Hizzoner from Wellfleet about 6:43 a.m.They sent out a mayday call for help and tried to use extinguishers to squelch the blaze but the fire quickly became uncontrollable.
	www.vse.cape.com /~harborm/ciha2B.html (16287 words)

	chronology2
		The battle for Malaya and Singapore lasted 70 days; the Japanese had thought it would take a hundred..Total Allied casualties in the entire Malayan campaign were 67,340 Indian, 38,496 British, 18,490 Australian, and 14,382 local volunteer troops (of this total of 138,708 about 130,000 were prisoners).
		May 4-8, 1942: The Battle of the Coral Sea was the first naval battle in which the participants never saw the enemy (carrier aircraft were solely involved in the attacks).
		The battle of the North Atlantic was effectively and decisively ended in favor of the Allies.
	www2.bc.edu /~heineman/chronology2.html (21323 words)

	Regulus' Army In Africa - Ancient Roman Empire Forums
		We can't be sure how many men were in the fleet after the battle; perhaps quite a few marines were used to crew the captured ships or maybe crews were drawn from Roman allies in Sicily.
		The Roman fleet arrived at Cape Hermaia (now Cape Bon or Rass Adder) and began a siege of "the city called Aspis," which could very well have been modern Kelibia (the Roman Clupea).
		This city acted as a shield for the Carthaginian plantations on Cape Bon, and after its capture, the Romans were free to ravage the territory, seizing much of the land's produce as well as some 20,000 slaves.
	www.unrv.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=3173 (823 words)

	World War II Biography,info
		The battle of the Atlantic lasted for the majority of the war and was a decisive theatre of conflict.
		In the Battle of the Caucasus, fought in the late summer and fall of 1942, the Axis forces captured the oil fields.
		At the Battle of North Cape, Germany's last battlecruiser, the Scharnhorst, was sunk by HMS Duke of York, HMS Belfast and several destroyers.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_World_War_II (7190 words)

	1944
		Battle of the Philippine Sea (19-20 June) opens as Japanese carrier-based aircraft attack Fifth Fleet (Adm. R.A. Spruance) covering Saipan operation.
		Battle for Leyte Gulf (13-16 October) opens as United States submarines off Palawan Island sight and attack the Center Force of three Japanese naval groups moving on Leyte in a major effort to drive United States forces from the Philippines.
		Battle for Leyte Gulf (23-26 October) ends as carrier-based and Army aircraft bomb the retiring Japanese ships which have survived the previous days' action.
	www.angelfire.com /tn/ww2essays/navy441.html (12515 words)

	1943 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		February 14 - World War II: Battle of the Kasserine Pass - German General Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps launch an offensive against Allied defenses in Tunisia; it is the United States' first major battle defeat of the war.
		August 23 - The Battle of Kursk ends with a heavy defeat for the German forces.
		November 25 - World War II: Americans and Japanese fight the naval Battle of Cape St. George between Buka and New Ireland.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1943 (3444 words)

	LemaireSoft's Condottieri: global (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Speed, impressing during official tests on a quiet sea, was much lower under true battle conditions, as several incidents proved (such as the loss of the Colleoni in the Battle off Cerigotto).
		The trend in the next series (there were five in total) was towards a more modest speed but a better protection, up to the final Abruzzi, which were at par with their foreign counterpart for the armour, but also for the speed.
		In the reality of war, those cruisers were not faster than their British counterparts as the battle off Cerigotto proved: the Colleoni was unable to shake off the Sydney and finally sunk.
	www.lemaire.happyhost.org /ship/classe1/5827.html (523 words)

	Mediterranean, RN, Fleet, Barham, Cape Bon, Battle, Sirte, George, Cross, ABC, Cunningham, Alexandria, Malta, Convoys, ...
		In the early hours of the 13th, the convoy is hugging the coast south of Cape Bon when Italian MTBs strike.
		Progress is at first slow and the battle becomes a straight slogging match.
		In the build-up to the battle, Royal Navy submarines and RAF aircraft, especially those based in Malta, are sinking more than a third of Axis supplies setting out for North Africa.
	www.naval-history.net /WW2CampaignsRNMed2.htm (5722 words)

	The History Channel - World War II
		While the marines battled a determined foe in a debilitating tropical climate, between August 24 and November 30 the navy fought six major engagements in the waters surrounding the island.
		In the war’s greatest tank battle, the Russians fought the Germans nearly to a standstill by July 12.
		Landings on Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in December, in the Admiralty Islands in February 1944, and at Emirau Island in March 1944 effectively sealed off Rabaul.
	www.historychannel.com /worldwartwo/?page=tide2 (2138 words)

	DD 982 Nicholson
		As part of a reorganization announced in July 1995 of the Atlantic Fleet's surface combatant ships into six core battle groups, nine destroyer squadrons and a new Western Hemisphere Group, the USS Nicholson was reassigned to Destroyer Squadron 18.
		The SINKEX developed the battle group's coordination of combined air and surface assaults, verified the performance of several weapons systems and enhanced the integration of joint units into naval battle scenarios.
		Though the Enterprise Battle Group departed on 25 April 2001, the USS Nicholson (DD 982) and USS Thorn (DD 988), scheduled as late-deployers, McFaul and Nicholson joined the battle group after departing in June.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/agency/navy/dd-982.htm (1487 words)

	Encyclopedia of the Naval Battles of World War 2: Table of Contents
		June 3, 1942: Midway: the battle and the diversions
		November 15, 1942: The aftermath of the naval battles of Guadalcanal
		October 24, 1944: Battle of the Sea of Sibuyan (Leyte)
	users.swing.be /navbat/toc.html (566 words)

	History Corner
		In this, one of the most decisive naval battles in history, the entire Spanish Squadron was sunk, burned or abandoned, and the shore batteries silenced, without a single American death.
		Aug 23 Oliver Hazard Perry, the hero of the Battle of Lake Erie, was born in South Kingston, R.I. Aug 24 Battle of Eastern Solomons.
		Actually four separate battles (Surigao Strait, Sibuyan Sea, Samar and Cape Engano, the Battle of Leyte Gulf was one of the greatest naval battles in history.
	www.hiltonheaddlc.com /history_corner.htm (6942 words)

	Army Air Forces in World War II
		In Tunisia, B-25's bomb retreating columns which are being pursued N of Oued el Akarit by the the British Eighth Army's 30 and 10 Corps.
		A-20's and medium bombers bomb the S landing ground at Soliman, positions NW of Enfidaville, and several other points in the battle area as Allied ground forces continue their advance on Bizerte and Tunis.
		In Tunisia, P-40's escort bombers and attack troops in the battle area N of Enfidaville.
	www.usaaf.net /chron/43/apr43.htm (9234 words)

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		In the Bismarck Archipelago, a lone B-24 bombs airfields at Cape Gloucester and Gasmata.
		Fighter sweeps over the battle area, provide cover for destroyers, strafe barges, bomb buildings in the battle area, strafe trucks between Hammamet and Soliman and bomb a landing ground near Menzel Temime.
		Numerous motor transport and troop concentrations on Cap Bon peninsula are bombed and strafed as British 6 Armored Division drives to Hammamet, cutting off the peninsula.
	paul.rutgers.edu /~mcgrew/wwii/usaf/May.43 (10351 words)

	Tracy Press, Tracy CA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		We went on a tour of the battlefields, which centered on rocky crests of the hilly spine of the eastern island.
		But the battle was never fought; the battered Argentine forces promptly surrendered.
		PUERTO MADRYN, Argentina — This city of about 60,000 in a protected bay on the Argentine Coast halfway between Cape Horn and Buenos Aires was founded by Welsh settlers in the 1860s.
	www.tracypress.com /local/2006-02-18-voyage.php (701 words)

	Braine dd 630
		During the Civil War he commanded Monticello and took part in an engagement with the rebel battery at Sewell's Point, in the first naval engagement of the war.
		She participated in operations in the South China Sea with USS BON HOMME RICHARD - CVA31.
		Braine earned nine battle stars for her World War II service.
	www.multied.com /Navy/destroyer/Brainedd630.html (1192 words)

	Dreadnought
		Later, the Vittorio Veneto was somewhat damaged by British torpedoes at the Battle of Cape Matapan in 1941.
		The Battle of Savo Island, a brilliant surprise attack in the dead of night by Japanese Admiral Mikawa, was the worst naval defeat in U.S. history.
		At the Battle for Leyte Gulf, the Princeton served in Task Group 38.3 with her sistership Langley (CVL-27), the Essex (CV-9) itself, and the Lexington again, the flagship of Vice Admiral Marc Mitscher, commander of Task Force 38.
	www.friesian.com /dreadnot.htm (8601 words)

	1941 Encyclopedia Articles @ LaunchBase.net (Launch Base) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		March 29 - World War II: Battle of Cape Matapan - Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy sinking five warships.
		May 20 - World War II: Battle of Crete - Germany launches airborne invasion of Crete.
		November 12 - World War II: Battle of Moscow: Temperatures around Moscow drop to −12 °C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
	www.launchbase.net /encyclopedia/1941 (2948 words)

	The History of the USS Cabot - CVL-28
		Chitose and Chiyoda CVLs 11,190 tons, 28.9 knots (Both sunk in Battle of Cape Engano in 1944 by carrier planes.) Ryujo CVL 10,600 tons, 29 knots (Sunk in Solomons by carrier planes) Hosho CVL 7,400 tons (Used mostly for training) ~ 163 ~ ============.
		From August 1942, he served as a gunnery officer aboard the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise in a number of engagements in the Pacific and was wounded during the Battle of Santa Cruz, 28 October 42.
		He died in the Battle of Leyte Gulf and was the brother of Mrs.
	www.mcallen.lib.tx.us /books/cabot/cab24_29.htm (2287 words)

	Top20New ersey.com - Your Top20 Guide to New Jersey!
		In December, 1776, the Continental Army under George Washington crossed the Delaware River and engaged Hessian troops in the Battle of Trenton.
		This image was also chosen to represent the State of New Jersey on the reverse side of the 1999 New Jersey State Quarter released by the United States Mint.
		Asbury Park, home of The Stone Pony, where Springsteen and Bon Jovi frequented early in their careers, which is still considered by many to be a "Mecca" for up-and-coming musicians.
	www.top20newjersey.com (5248 words)

	African Diaspora Archaeology Network, Newsletter, June 2005
		One area that might have been included in the section on the archaeology of slavery (chapter 6), or as part of the summing up discussion in chapter 8, is what social repercussions there have been in the present.
		Unmarked graves of hundreds of skeletons, exposed during development for new buildings, have been championed by local activists as those of "slaves" who never had a voice in their life, so they want the grave sites left alone.
		The irony is that in death these skeletons finally have a chance to speak by offering themselves to scientific analyses for forensic work on isotopes, pathologies, and reconstructed life histories of Cape Town's underclass of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth-centuries.
	www.diaspora.uiuc.edu /news0605/news0605.html (4842 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : 1941 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		November 27 - A group of young men stop traffic on highway US 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson.
		November 27 - World War II: Battle of Moscow - Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow.
		They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /1941 (2783 words)

	Shahid. Byzantinism and Arabism
		The federate troops under their believing phylarchs fought the fire-worshiping Persians and the pagan Lakhmids with a crusading zeal, and they probably considered those who fell in such battles martyrs of the Christian faith.
		It is also practically certain that they participated in Leo's Vandal Expedition, taking part in the battle of Cape Bon, during which their numbers must have been thinned.
		This is the most plausible explanation for their ineffectiveness in the defense of the limes Arabic around A.D. Finally, the law of generation and decay which governed the rise and fall of Arab polities before the rise of Islam caught up with them.
	www.fordham.edu /Halsall/med/shahid.html (4682 words)

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