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    Rear Admiral Sir Christopher George Francis Maurice Cradock KCVO CB SGM (2 July 1862 – 1 November 1914) was an English senior officer of the Royal Navy...
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    recording artist Christopher Cradock (1862–1914), English Royal Navy officer Christopher Cross (born 1951), American musician Christopher De Leon (born 1956)...
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    Sortain Pechey (26 February 1909 – 27 December 1994), better known as Fanny Cradock, was an English restaurant critic, television cook and writer. She frequently...
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    and overpowered a British squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. The engagement probably took place as a result of misunderstandings...
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    4th Cruiser Squadron under Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock in the Battle of Coronel, sinking two of Cradock's cruisers and forcing his other two ships...
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    4th Cruiser Squadron and became the flagship of Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock. Cradock moved the available ships of his squadron later that month to...
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  • Cradock may refer to: Christopher Cradock (1862–1914), admiral in the Royal Navy Edward Cradock (fl. 1571), English theologian and alchemist Eric Cradock...
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    and only surviving son of Sheldon Cradock of Hartforth and Elizabeth Wilkinson (daughter and heiress of Christopher Wilkinson of Thorpe-on-Tees). He succeeded...
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    defeating a British squadron against recently appointed Rear Admirable Christopher Cradock armed with his flagship, HMS Good Hope, and generally inferior ships...
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    his "formidable qualities as a killer", he became, according to Christopher Cradock and M.L.R. Smith, "the chief assassin" for FLN. He was notably responsible...
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     Austria-Hungary  Italy  China Commanders and leaders Yakov Hildebrandt Christopher Cradock Hugo von Pohl General Lo Jung-Kuang Strength 900 men 10 ships Approximately...
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    slow to follow Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock's cruisers, she missed the Battle of Coronel in November 1914, where Cradock was defeated. Moored at Port...
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  • Coronel – A British Royal Navy squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock is met in the eastern Pacific and defeated by superior German forces...
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    might be asked to scrub another's back. In 1908, Rear Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock declared that expeditious coaling was essential for the efficiency...
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  • Spee's German cruiser squadron defeats a Royal Navy squadron under Christopher Cradock off Chile. November 2 Naval, Atlantic The United Kingdom begins the...
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    gathered his ships together before defeating the British under Admiral Christopher Cradock at the Battle of Coronel. Following the Royal Navy's win at the Battle...
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    by two salvos from Lion. The West Indies Squadron of Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock was destroyed by the German East Asia Squadron commanded by Admiral...
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    by two salvos from Lion. The West Indies Squadron of Rear-Admiral Christopher Cradock was destroyed by the German East Asia Squadron commanded by Vice-Admiral...
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    Ocean and encountered a British squadron commanded by Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock. In the ensuing Battle of Coronel on 1 November, the British squadron...
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    military attaché to the United States and Mexico, and Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock, the commander of the British 4th Cruiser Squadron, on 10 May and...
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    the German squadron off the coast of South America. Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock commanded the armored cruisers HMS Good Hope and Monmouth, Glasgow...
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    Squadron after it destroyed the West Indies Squadron of Rear-Admiral Christopher Cradock during the Battle of Coronel. She returned home the next month after...
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    over 1,500 British sailors and officers (including Rear-Admiral Christopher Cradock). This was one of the last battles involving armored cruisers as...
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    commerce raiders. The ship was then ordered to join Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock's squadron in their search for the German East Asia Squadron. He found...
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    and was later ordered to the South Atlantic to join Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock's squadron in their search for the German East Asia Squadron. He found...
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    to attack the three British cruisers under the command of Admiral Christopher Cradock, and any British shipping encountered. On 22 September, Scharnhorst...
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    ordered home on 18 August. The West Indies Squadron of Rear Admiral Christopher Cradock was destroyed by the German East Asia Squadron commanded by Admiral...
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    from drowning off the coast of Sardinia by the efforts of Captain Christopher Cradock of HMS Bacchante. Finestone, Jeffrey (1989). Čhulālongkō̜n rātchasantatiwong:...
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    and overpowered a British squadron commanded by Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock. It was an overwhelming German victory; the Germans suffered only...
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    proportionately greater in the army. The admirals killed were Rear-Admiral Sir Christopher Cradock at the Battle of Coronel in 1914 and Rear-Admirals Sir Horace Hood...
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