British Empire Strikes Back - Falklands 1914

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  @KingsandGenerals · 1 year ago · pinned

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  @thomasrinschler6783 · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QzAxaO2LHs&amp;t=753">12:33</a>. Von Spee&apos;s two sons weren&apos;t on the Scharnhorst, but they didn&apos;t survive long after their father&apos;s ship sank anyway. Heinrich died aboard Gneisenau, and Otto was killed aboard Nürnberg.

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• OR

  @oriffel · 1 year ago

  the clock was a nice touch.

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• BE

  @beachboy0505 · 1 year ago

  Naval warfare is cruel. &nbsp;Warships don&apos;t like to surrender so their entire crew perish.

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• OT

  @oteliogarcia1562 · 1 year ago

  Even though the British ships were in a precarious position, most of them were coaling and that was a slow process, with only two ships acting as guard ships at the entrance and only Canopus providing immediate response, Admiral Sturdee apparently told his men not to worry and to finish breakfast. That&apos;s how overwhelming the British advantage was. Sturdee knew his battlecruisers were both faster and better armed than Spee&apos;s best ships. Sturdee went through his preparations even as Spee&apos;s squadron began their escape. Once he started chasing, the German headstart began to disappear. German gunnery kept them in the fight much longer than they should have, but overwhelming force won in the end. Sturdee did to Spee what Spee did to Craddock.

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  @AFTAF1235 · 1 year ago

  This was truly an epic battle and a game of cat and mouse. Thanks for visualizing this!

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• RV

  @rvail136 · 1 year ago

  The battle of the Falklands is the only battle in which battle cruisers were used in the manner for which they were designed: to destroy an enemy force of slower armored cruisers.

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  @michaelterrell5061 · 1 year ago

  The naval part of WW1 is often overlooked, but it’s easily one of the most romantic and exciting parts of the war. A movie could be made about the exploits of some of these men and their battles and operations, and I think many would enjoy it, and more importantly, would remember the sacrifices made by so many young people during the Great War.

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  @politonno2499 · 11 months ago (edited)

  I love your naval warfare videos in this format. If they&apos;re this cool now, I can&apos;t imagine once you cover other major battles such as Elli (1912), Yalu (1894), Santiago de Cuba (1898), Jutland (1916) or even Lissa (1866)

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  @stevefromwork6136 · 1 year ago

  The great war, desperately needs another animated documentary. I cant wait for this series.

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  @ArmchairFilmCritic · 1 year ago (edited)

  Excellent video and animation. Also like the reference to The Empire Strikes back in the title, very appropriate.<br> <br>The Admiralty was determined to avenge the loss at the Coronel, sending out HMS Invincible and inflexible in response.<br> <br>The battle of the Falkland Islands was the textbook example of the use of battle cruisers because they were able to catch up and overtake the German cruisers bombarding them from a greater range than the German cruisers could. <br> <br>I remember reading one of Robert Massie’s books Castles of Steel which covered this battle noting that Sturdee had a day of gunnery training for the two battlecruisers achieving a hit rate of circa 6.5% during the battle.<br> <br>The gunnery in WW1 depended upon sight and range finding equipment at this time without the benefit of radar and radio technology which was in very early development at this stage and would be of great use in WW2 especially between HMS Duke of York and the Scharnhorst, the battle was able to continue into darkness as a result of this technology. <br> <br>From memory, the book also brought up some of the issues which would come up in later battles, such as the difficulty in the use of signalling with flags which caused the lack of visibility from the coal burning engines and gunfire, having some impact on the accuracy of the gunnery at longer range which improved as the battle went on and at closer ranges. I think also shell performance was noticed not to be good in this battle.<br> <br>The overall viability of the battlecruisers was mixed, on the one hand there was The battle of the Falkland Islands but against German battlecruisers and battleships they were wanting for the following reasons<br> <br>Less armour protection than their German counterparts<br> <br>Poor handling of cordite charges which was meant to come to the guns one at a time but instead the turrets and corridors were stacked with these cordite charges and the doors between the turret and magazines were removed rather than being kept shut except for the transfer of the individual cordite charges. This meant a hit on a turret, the explosion ignited the cordite and travelled down to the turret with tragic results for three battlecruisers and their crews at Jutland.

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  @robbabcock_ · 1 year ago

  Beautiful animations! &nbsp;No one does like Kings &amp; Generals.

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