The Great Armament was the popular name given to the rapid build-up in the strength of the British Royal Navy as a consequence of the need for inshore...
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Albacore-class gunboat (1883) (section Armament)
name had already been used for a class of 98 gunboats built during the Great Armament of the Crimean War. The Albacore class was designed by Nathaniel Barnaby...
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avoid inflation, moved to reduce the deficit spending that went towards armaments and munitions. This resulted in a strong and swift negative reaction from...
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German rearmament (redirect from German re-armament)
tuberculosis in 1938. Ossietzky's disclosures triggered the re-armament policy in Great Britain, which escalated after Adolf Hitler withdrew Germany from...
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Dreadnought (section Armament)
pre-dreadnoughts. Her design had two revolutionary features: an "all-big-gun" armament scheme, with an unprecedented number of heavy-calibre guns, and steam turbine...
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Polish Armament in 1939–45 article is a list of equipment used by Polish army before and during the Invasion of Poland, foreign service in British Commonwealth...
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of more than 350 gunboats and mortar vessels, which was known as the Great Armament, but the war ended before the attack was launched. Part of the Russian...
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Nootka Crisis (redirect from Spanish Armament)
the Spanish Armament, was an international incident and political dispute between the Nuu-chah-nulth Nation, Spain, the Kingdom of Great Britain, and...
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would be fit to lie in the line, owing to her great armament. If it is hoped to fight at such great ranges that her 7-inch belt and 5-inch side will...
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World War I (redirect from The Great War)
Bethmann Hollweg acknowledged defeat, leading to the Rüstungswende or 'armaments turning point', when he switched expenditure from the navy to the army...
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