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BATTLE OF THE FALKLANDS

The Battle of the Falklands was a number of separate, but concurrent naval engagements on the 8th of December 1914, during the Great War, between the British and Germans and occured when a German squadron under von Spee was sighted, attacked and destroyed, by a British force under Vice-Admiral Sir Doveton Sturdee based at Port Stanley.
The British force comprised the battle cruisers Invincible and Inflexible and the cruisers Bristol, Carnavon, Glasgow, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser Macedonia (who sighted the enemy squadron approaching whilst on guard outside Port Stanley Harbour) and the slow pre-dreadnought HMS Canopus, who ambushed the approaching ships from her hidden position.
The German force was comprised of the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Dresden, Leipzig, and the Nurnberg.
HMS Invincible and HMS Inflexible engaged and sank the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau. The fastest German ship, Dresden escaped; HMS Cornwall and HMS Glasgow engaged and sank the Leipzig, while HMS Kent pursued and sank the Nurnberg.
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