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	SMS Dresden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The SMS Dresden was a German Kaiserliche Marine light cruiser of the Dresden class, commissioned in 1908.
		At the outbreak of war in 1914, the Dresden had been stationed in the Caribbean for a year, and was preparing for the return journey to Germany.
		Approximately one month later, SMS Dresden was the only German cruiser to escape at the disastrous Battle of the Falkland Islands, her turbine engines proving faster than her expansion-engined squadron mates.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/SMS_Dresden (421 words)

	Thumbnail biographic sketches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		German lyric poet and critic; was sent to his uncle Solomon Heine, a banker at Hamburg, to learn a business career, but through the uncle's assistance he was enabled to study jurisprudence at Bonn, Berlin, Göttingen.
		German astronomer; formulated the three laws of planetary orbits: orbits are elliptical, radius vectors sweep out equal areas in equal times, squares of orbital periods proportional to cubes of mean distances from sun.
		Soon after his return from a mission to the East (1861), Renan was called to the chair of Hebrew in the Coll:ege de France; but as he denied the divinity of Christ, he fell out with the clerical party, and was forced to resign his professorship in 1864.
	www.mencken.org /files/text/me1908biographies.htm (6762 words)

	FREE MARKET FAIRY TALES: On This Day ... in 1914 & 1918
		His platoon officer and sergeant having been among several casualties, suffered by his unit, Drummer Bent of the East Lancashire Regiment assumed command of the survivors in his platoon and organised a successful defence against heavy attack at Le Gheer in Belgium.
		His opponent was Vice-Admiral Graf von Spee, commanding the German East Asiatic Squadron, which was attempting to return to Germany.
		Spee's squadron was destroyed at the Falklands on 8 December, both Canopus and Glasgow playing a key part in the action.
	www.fmft.net /archives/000602.html (337 words)

	Battle of Coronel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		During the battle, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock was met and defeated by the superior German Kaiserliche Marine forces led by Vice-Admiral Graf Maximilian von Spee.
		Patrolling South America at that time was Admiral Cradock's West Indies Squadron, which consisted of two armoured cruisers, HMS Good Hope (Cradock's flagship) and HMS Monmouth, the modern light cruiser HMS Glasgow, and a converted ex-liner, HMS Otranto.
		Once news of the scale of the British defeat, and its consequent humiliation, reached the British Admiralty in London a decision was quickly taken to assemble a huge naval force under Admiral Sir Frederick Sturdee.
	www.leessummit.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Battle_of_Coronel (880 words)

	Peaceful Anchorage
		At the outbreak of World War I, Germany's East Asiatic squadron, consisting of two large armoured cruisers and three light cruisers under the command of Vice Admiral Graf Spee, traveled from their base at Tsingtao in northern China, across the western Pacific to the coast of Chile.
		The British Admiralty reacted swiftly, dispatching a powerful naval force to the South Atlantic to confront the German squadron, and on 9th December battle commenced some 120 miles south west of the Falkland Islands.
		The formidable German East Asiatic Squadron, under the command of Vice Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee, took part in the first major sea battle of the First World War.
	chesterfieldarmament.com /taylor/peacefulanchorage/anchorage.htm (361 words)

	CHRISTOPHER A LONG - Battles of Coronel & The Falkland Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The Battle of Coronel: Germany's East Asiatic squadron, under Count Maximilian von Spee, was trying to evade the British and Japanese as he sailed eastwards from the Caroline Islands across the Pacific.
		The presence of the awning over the rear decks suggests that this picture may have been taken in the Mediterranean or Aegean where she was on station in Spring 1915 as the Gallipoli invasion approached.
		The German squadron had a 15-20 mile lead but with over eight hours of daylight left and fine weather the battle cruisers would be in action in a couple of hours.
	www.christopherlong.co.uk /pub.coronelfalklands.html (6373 words)

	Falkland Islands Philatelic Bureau - Falkland Islands
		The German East Asiatic Squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral Graf Von Spee was based at Tsingtao at the outbreak of the war and was isolated and vulnerable in an area dominated by Allied fleets.
		The German squadron comprised the armoured cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the light cruisers Dresden, Leipzig and Nurnberg.
		In German legend a Lorelei was a fairy, similar to the Greek Sirens, that lived on a high c1iff on the Rhine, luring sailors to their death.
	www.falklands.gov.fk /pb/fi/battle-90th.htm (933 words)

	Avalanche Press
		The game is based on the German East Asiatic Squadron’s attempt to return home from China to Germany during the early days of the First World War, along with the related anti-commerce missions undertaken by German cruisers.
		As in the actual event, the German player is unlikely to actually survive the game (get the cruisers back to Germany), but he or she can inflict enough damage on the Allied economies to win.
		German commanders were aware that they could head for stormier seas to make it harder for the Allies to find them, but at the same time, they would have a harder time finding merchant ships on which to prey.
	www.avalanchepress.com /CruiserNotes.php (1027 words)

	Semaphore Issue 7 2003 - Sea Power Centre Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The primary reason for this request was to prevent enemy wireless stations from passing information to the German East Asiatic Squadron of the Imperial German Navy, commanded by Admiral Graf von Spee, that might hinder British efforts to bring it to battle.
		The German resistance, comprising 40 reservists and 110 native troops, was no match for the ANMEF, covered by the 12” guns of Australia, and the acting Governor surrendered all of German New Guinea on 17 September 1914.
		With the major German threat in the Pacific and Indian Oceans now eliminated, Australia’s newer warships could be reallocated to the Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres of operations, while lightly escorted ANZAC troop convoys could sail unmolested to Europe and the Middle East.
	www.navy.gov.au /spc/semaphore/html/issue7_2003.htm (1469 words)

	Quiz 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Armored cruiser SMS Scharnhorst was flagship of the German East Asiatic Squadron, under the command of VAdm Graf von Spee.
		He was surprised to discover a British squadron led by Adm Sturdee in the battlecruiser HMS Invincible, which had been secretly dispatched to intercept him.
		The German ships were overwhelmed by the superior speed, range, and gun power of the British ships.
	rasputin.physics.uiuc.edu /~wiringa/Ships/Quizzes/Quiz04.html (139 words)

	The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The defeat of British led Indian forces and allied troops at the hands of a numerically inferior Asiatic army riding on bicycles, living on rice and in some cases superior weapons was to have fateful post war political and nationalist consequences for the European colonial held Far East.
		In March 1942 the Japanese were regrouping their crack air squadrons, veterans of the China war, at Bali before sending them en route to Rabaul and the east coast of New Guinea for more planned joint operational conquests of expansion.
		Fast moving flanking attacks were essential if considerable oil, rubber, tin, bauxite ore and bird poop of South East Asia and the South West Pacific were to be seized relatively undamaged during the early stages of hostilities and to avoid the north-east monsoon of the China Sea and violent gales of the north Pacific.
	www.geocities.com /dutcheastindies (3969 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Emden was a cruiser that, at the start of the First World War, formed part of the German East Asiatic Squadron.
		She was detached to stalk the shipping routes across the Indian Ocean and quickly became the scourge of the Allied navies.
		Surprised by one of these escorts, HMAS Sydney, while in the process of destroying the British radio station on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Emden was destroyed on 9 November 1914.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_12749.asp (121 words)

	ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		After the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, London and Ottawa were planning to expand the RCN significantly, but it was decided that Canadian men would be permitted to enlist in either the Royal Navy or its Canadian counterpart, with many choosing the former.
		During the fall of 1914, HMCS ''Rainbow'' patrolled the west coast of the North_America, as far south as Panama, although these patrols became less important following the elimination of the German naval threat in the Pacific with the December 1914 defeat of Admiral Graf Maximilian_von_Spee's German_East_Asiatic_Squadron off the Falkland_Islands.
		Much of ''Rainbow'''s crew were posted to the east coast for the remainder of the war and by 1917 ''Rainbow'' was withdrawn from service.
	www.bellabuds.com /Royal_Canadian_Navy (2039 words)

	SUBMARINE SQUADRON 12
		It was only the combined effort of the British and American fleets which resulted in the defeat of the German submarine menace that swung the balance in the favor of the Allies.
		Patrols were launched from Pearl Harbor and from Manila the Asiatic Fleet submarine force was on the prowl.
		BUSHNELL was working for Submarine Squadron Six while their Tender is in overhaul in the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
	okees.150m.com /submarines/page2.htm (4727 words)

	Australian Military Units
		Koenigsberg was a light cruiser that, at the start of the First World War, formed part of the German Navy's East Asiatic Squadron.
		In the initial months of the war, her whereabouts caused the Australian naval authorities some concern, but this was allayed when she was located hiding up the Rufigi River in German East Africa (present-day Tanzania) in October 1914.
		A blockade was subsequently mounted to prevent the Koenigsberg escaping, and after one ill-fated attack on 6 July 1915, she was destroyed by the British monitor HMS Severn on 12 July.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/unit_20878.asp (116 words)

	The German Squadron in the Pacific (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The outbreak of the First World War shattered Canada's security, especially with the presence of Admiral von Spee's German East Asiatic Squadron on the Pacific Ocean; British Columbia was at risk of being attacked.
		With the entry of Japan into the First World War in August of 1914, the German East Asiatic Squadron, under control of Admiral von Spee, was forced out of Chinese waters and into the Pacific Ocean.
		It was known that a large part of the fleet had crossed the Pacific and an attack on the British Columbian coast seemed imminent.
	collections.ic.gc.ca /maritime/navy/n2c.html (246 words)

	436th BOMBARDMENT SQUADRON
		The 436th Bombardment Squadron (436BS) was originally organized 18 August 1917 as the 88th Reconnaissance Squadron and activated 1 September 1917 at Kelly Field, Texas.
		Thus, the three bomb squadrons, 9th, 436th and 492nd were attached directly to the wing and taken out from under the group on 16 February.
		The purpose of the mission was to familiarize the 436th Bomb Squadron with the staging base at Goose Bay, and test the capabilities and facilities of the base.
	www.7bwb-36assn.org /436hist.html (10860 words)

	Potential Raids by German Battlecruisers
		German battlecruisers may have spent their wartime careers from 1914-18 for the most part in the North Sea, Baltic, and Black Sea, but they were not strictly "short-range" ships.
		In fact, the German Naval High Command was so impressed with GOEBEN's performance in her "out-of-area" role that it had planned in the spring of 1914 to replace SCHARNHORST with MOLTKE as flagship of the East Asian Squadron.
		The German Navy's amazingly competent "Etappen-Dienst" (overseas logistics service) showed quite extraordinary ability throughout the war in coordinating the timely resupply of far-flung German warships with food, fuel, fresh water, and munitions in the teeth of overwhelming Allied numerical superiority.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/ignbcrdr.htm (1783 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		Once the war became a reality, the Imperial German East Asiatic Squadron, under its commander Vice Admiral Graff von Spee, left its base at Tsingtao in China and began to raid British and allied commerce in the Pacific.
		On Sunday, November 1, 1914, units of the British navy and the German squadron met off Coronel in Chile, with the British suffering a major naval defeat.
		As a result of the defeat and the German threat units of the Japanese and Australian fleets were called upon to jointly patrol the Pacific Coast of North America.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/77summer/kondo.htm (8283 words)

	Stanley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 1892 Christ church Catedral was consecrated on the site of the old exchange building, but was not completed with a tower until after the turn of the century.
		Stanley first experienced International military conflict when the "Battle of the Falklands" took place at sea near the Islands on December 8th 1914, resulting in the destruction of Vice Admiral Graf Von Spee´s German East Asiatic squadron by Battleships of the Royal Navy.
		More than 2000 German lives were lost and injured British sailors were cared for and treated ashore.
	www.discoveryfalklands.com /Stanley.htm (283 words)

	HMAS AUSTRALIA
		By 1909, the threat posed to Britain by the German naval building programme was becoming acute, despite the Royal Navy's concentration in Home waters.
		She was followed out by four light cruisers of the British Special Service Squadron (then visiting Australian ports), which honoured the battlecruiser with a Royal Salute of 21 guns.
		Soon four sight-seeing vessels, carrying thousands of passengers eager to witness the sinking, emerged from the Heads, while the escort was enlarged by the arrival of HMA Ships Melbourne (with the Prime Minister on board), Adelaide, Stalwart and Anzac, the latter with members of the Naval Board embarked.
	www.gwpda.org /naval/hmasaust.htm (1262 words)

	"The Scholars"
		At the outbreak of WW 1, the German East Asiatic Squadron had half a world between itself and the fatherland.
		The Germans continued as planned, but Lord Fisher, newly recalled to the Admiralty, sent two battle cruisers out to the Falklands, to intercept von Spee’s squadron.
		Patrols were kept up, particularly after the Easter rising of 1916, to prevent German gun-running in support of the IRA (Irish Republican Army), which was especially strong in the south and west.
	www.kipling.org.uk /kiplingsociety/rg_scholars1_p.htm (2330 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| From burning hulls to freezing seas
		He begins, however, not with the crash of gunfire but with a portrait of the Royal Navy as it was when its post-Trafalgar century of worldwide oceanic dominance was drawing to a close.
		After the sinking of the Lusitania and before the headstrong German decision to return to unrestricted attack on commerce, U-boats were vulnerable to counter-measures on the surface.
		That was the fate the British opponents of the East Asiatic Cruiser Squadron had suffered at Coronel a few weeks earlier.
	www.arts.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml;sessionid=QXI0OJMEN2HKRQFIQMGCNAGAVCBQUJVC?xml=/arts/2005/05/01/bothom01.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/05/01/bomain.html (687 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: China
		Greenwich), extending farthest east; to the north is the gulf of Chi-li and Shan-tung Peninsula; to the south the gulf of Tong-king, the Island of Hai-nan, and Lei-chou Peninsula.
		Treaties were signed with Prussia and the German States (T'ien-tsin, 2 Sept., 1861), Portugal (T'ien-tsin, 13 Aug., 1862), though not ratified, Denmark (T'ien-tsin, 13 July, 1863), Spain (T'ien-tsin, 10 Oct, 1864), Holland (T'ien-tsin, 6 Oct., 1863), Belgium (Peking, 2 Oct., 1865), Italy (26 Oct., 1866), and Austria (Peking, 2 Oct., 1869).
		The German minister, Von Ketteler, was murdered (20 June); the legations at Peking were besieged by troops and the infuriated mob.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/03663b.htm (8648 words)

	German Armoured Cruiser Gneisenau
		German armoured cruiser Gneisenau, launched 14th June 1906, due to having only 17cm single gun turrets in wing arrangements, it was under gunned for the battle fleet of 1914.
		She was used form 1911 onwards at Tsingtao, the German colony in China and was part of Admiral Graf Spee's East Asian Squadron.
		She fought at the battle of Coronel and was finally sunk at the Battle of the Falklands on 8th December 1914.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /gneisenau.htm (838 words)

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