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👤 Ivan ˝Zajcev˝ Zajac
🕔 12.02.2015
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ARA Vienticinco de Mayo vs. Task Force 317

The Argentine fleet did not play a major role in the Falklands War in 1982, despite initial bold intentions. Right at the beginning of the conflict, it was planned to attack aircraft from the aircraft carrier ARA Vienticinco de Mayo on Task Force 317, which was to eliminate its British counterparts, and thus air cover. It almost came to the first battle of aircraft carriers since the end of World War II, but everything was ultimately decided by British nuclear submarines.

👤 Radek Enžl
🕔 19.06.2007
👁 42.951

Battle of Aboukir Bay

In the spring of 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte was planning a major invasion of Egypt. The Directory felt a threat in his person, so he willingly gave permission for the campaign. The purpose of this action was to cut off England from its colonies and endanger the colonies in India.

👤 Radek Enžl
🕔 13.06.2007
👁 38.743

Battle of Cape Sao Vicente February 14, 1797

The battle in which the later legendary Admiral Horatio Nelson won his spurs.

👤 Cesky Cestovatel
🕔 09.12.2016
👁 19.076

Shortest war

We know a lot of wars of different lengths from history. Seven days, seven years, thirty years and even a century long. But have you ever wondered how long the shortest war lasted? Believe it or not, it was half an hour. Exactly half an hour and eight minutes. It was not a fight between mafia families or indigenous tribes, but a regular conflict between two sovereign states. It took place more than a hundred years ago on the east coast of Africa, where in August 1896 Great Britain and Zanzibar got into a crossroads, so to speak, (or perhaps crescents - a conflict between a Christian and a Muslim country).

👤 Jiří Mašek
🕔 18.05.2009
👁 29.956

SS Thistlegorm - still full of combat equipment

SS Thistlegorm was sunken by German bombers from KG 26. Thistlegorm is one of the most famous wrecks in the world. It is still loaded with military equipment of all kinds, destined for North Africa, for General Wavell's Crusader operation.

👤 Martin Kaltoun (MART.in)
🕔 08.10.2009
👁 30.489

The Fighting Temeraire

The painting that was voted Britain's most popular painting in England. A painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner. What is so interesting about it and what makes it special? What or who is Temeraire? And why it appears here, on a server that is not dedicated to art, but, as the name suggests, war, battlefields, soldiers, weapons and related things. This article can answer all this.

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