Tag: Maximilian von Spee

• Wednesday, November 5th 2014 - 20:44 UTC

  British and German embassies commemorate 100 years of the Battle of Coronel

  

  British and German Embassies in Santiago organized a commemoration event to mark the 100 years of the Battle of Coronel, off the coast of Chile. A hundred years ago November first 1914, one of the first Naval battles of the First World War between the Royal Navy and the German Navy took place 50 miles off the coast of Coronel.