Concerned that the entire fleet might be shared out between the victors as the spoils of war Admiral von Reuter, the German officer in charge of the interned fleet, decided to purposely sink the ships.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
The Peloponnesian League, led by Sparta, defeated Athens in the Peloponnesian War.
Germany quickly began developing an equivalent ship to the Dreadnought, resulting in a naval arms race that contributed to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
The writer Thomas Carlyle is credited with giving the conflict its name in his 1858 biography of the Prussian King Friedrich II.
European and Japanese naval forces fought for the first time at the Battle of Fukuda Bay.
Octavian defeated the combined forces of Marc Anthony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium.
Napoleon Bonaparte voluntarily surrendered to British Captain Maitland on board the Royal Navy ship HMS Bellerophon.
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